I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
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Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#2This looks like the Equinox Pine Street location (in the FiDi), not the Equinox Sports Club on Market Street. Not that it matters for the story, but the headline's off target.
The actual story is pretty fucked up, though.
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#3Why are you speaking up now? Just go to the police and spare us.
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
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Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#5You go to a yoga class with a male instructor, what did you expect lmao
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#6Why are you speaking up now? Just go to the police and spare us.
Don't be ignorant and read the article. He went to the police since Equinox didn't behave how they should have behaved. Kudos for the male author to share his story.
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#7Why are you speaking up now? Just go to the police and spare us.
White homosexual in SF. Nothing will ever happen to him.
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#8I'm sorry that happened to you and thanks for speaking up. The way the company treated you is beyond awful.
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#9Why are you speaking up now? Just go to the police and spare us.
> Within days of the assault, I decided to report the incident to the police. The police investigator tried to track down the yoga instructor, but initially Equinox wouldn’t cooperate. Equinox initially refused to acknowledge the existence of the yoga room security tapes and they would not release the phone number of the instructor or even help try to get him on the phone with the police. But, when the investigator and a member of the District Attorney’s Office finally got legal access to the tapes, both agreed that the actions of the yoga instructor were bizarre, unethical, unprofessional, and inappropriate. The investigator also told me that the instructor had been terminated from the gym.
Re: I was sexually assaulted at Equinox and banned for reporting it
#10I regularly went to a gym in Jakarta and tried the massage service since it's cheap compared to the western. One of the masseurs was male and I confirm with the author that it's hard for heterosexual men to perceive subtle actions taken by gay instructors/masseurs. Initially you attribute certain behaviors to cultural differences but luckily I realized why the masseur kept asking to continue selling his service to me. It felt very awkward for me too and obviously I skipped any future massage in that gym. I give my respect to the male author about speaking up. You can see easily how dumb some of the commenters are in this thread failing to recognize the value of that article.