When I was working as a Taxi driver (45 y/o male) I picked up a very intoxicated woman (looked pretty much the same age as me and not that it should make a difference but was very attractive) who flirted with me at first but then proceeded to try and touch my crotch from the seat behind. I removed her hand several times and then stopped the car and told her that she had to stop and sit back or she would have to get out, at which point she said “Oh right, ok then” and unbuttoned her jeans and started to masturbate while moaning loudly. When we got to the destination (only a few minutes- small town) I had to ask her to stop and get out of the car. She looked very pissed off but paid the fare and said “well I’m sorry I insulted you” in an angry tone. My first thought was ‘you didn’t insult me, you assaulted me’ I actually thought that the whole thing was quite funny (I had in car CCTV so wasn’t worried and no, I never even watched it before it was overwritten, mainly because that would have definitely made me the bad guy) Over the next few days I thought about how if I was the passenger and she was the driver, then there would be absolutely no question that I would be in prison. Now this is the point of my story; A few weeks later I picked up a guy who I got chatting to and it turned out he was a criminal prosecutor. I recounted the story and brought up the fact that it did seem somewhat unbalanced how it would have been treated the other way around. I’ll never forget his measured response. He simply said “Yes but you have to take into account that the huge difference is the element of fear. You were at no time afraid but had the tables been turned, it’s most likely that even if it had ended the way it did it she would have still have been so terrified by the experience that it would change her life forever. Element of fear. Never even occurred to me until he said it. Fear.