While we may be statistically less likely to be sexually assaulted, it is by no means unheard of.
It would be decades before I thought of this, and similar instances, as anything other than part of a series of pathetic failures on my part to be a man. Eventually I told a few of those closest to me. The Medium story was a preparation for a storytelling event. When I started the story there was laughter because I am a regular who usually plays it for laughs. The laughter died away as I got into it. By the end you could have heard a pin drop.