I’m looking for shared experiences as this is really and truly starting to get me down.

I feel like I experience an abnormal level of male sexual attraction.

I’m not particularly physically appealing. I have what I would consider an overwhelmingly average face and figure. I dress in jeans and a tshirt, tie my hair in a bun and don’t wear makeup.

But ever since I was 10 years old, boys my age and grown men alike would stare at me, follow me around stores, and on occasion, even grope me. I was sexually assaulted several times by close family members, schoolmates,& even a music teacher before I left high school.

I am in my thirties now, with children, and I still have men approach me and ask for my number, to the point where’s it’s happened to me on more than one occasion while my husband and children were with me.

Now, aside from being disgusting, creepy and totally illegal when I was a minor, that in itself does sound pretty average for the experience of a woman in this world.

Here’s the thing: it isn’t limited to human male attention.

I have done extensive reading on the sexual behaviors of animals,& I understand perfectly that it is more a territorial and bullying behavior for an animal to act sexually towards a human.

But it hasn’t happened to me once. Or twice. Or three times… there are FOUR male animals I can name where I have been approached sexually. I had a neutered male cat that I would regularly wake up to him humping my leg… my uncles neutered male golden lab would hump me as a child, when he was fully grown. My mothers neutered male dog regularly humps his blanket and licks himself to the point of being very aroused when I- and only I- am in the room, and I had an aunt whose un-neutered male poodle would sniff my crotch and then proceed to hump me.

If It was only once or twice, I may have ignored it.

But this is a regular thing in my life.

I shower regularly and always wear clean undergarments. But I feel like I’m doing SOMETHING wrong to attract this kind of unwarranted attention and it is really started to mess with me mentally.

I even spray my crotch with perfumes before I leave the house to try to maybe mask any pheromones.

I WISH this was a joke. I’d love if I was just narcissistic and imagining it all… but people in my life has started to notice and become curious as to why this is happening.

Has anyone else experienced this? What do you do to try to control the situation?