Eve-teasing is a euphemism used in India, Pakistan(and sometimes Nepal and Bhutan) for public sexual harassment or molestation of women by men, with use of the word "Eve" being a reference to the biblical Eve, the first woman. Harassment is a common problem women across the world have to face. In the South Asian context the archaic term 'eve-teasing' is employed to describe such harassment. Of cou
rse we in Pakistan are no strangers to the harassment of women, especially in public places such as markets, offices and public transport. Such behaviour can range from constant unwanted ogling to much worse. Because of such negative male attitudes women are not comfortable in public places in this country. Eve teasing is a euphemistic expression that lives that refers largely to sexual harassment of women in public spaces, thereby constituting women as ‘Eves’, temptresses who provoke men into states of sexual titillation. This popular perception of sexual harassment posits the phenomena as a joke where women are both a tease and deserve to be teased. It is an extremely serious problem here, much more so because there is so much sexual frustration around the country due to the lack of healthy interaction of the sexes. From derogatory remarks to outright groping, we women have all been a victim of it in one way or another.
