Sexual harrassment at the gym

The male gaze and harassment at my gym has become so overwhelming I've literally had to quit and lost some money in the process. And I use the term quit loosely as I was practically forced out by the egregious alpha ladish cruel culture in that place as I was one of 3 women, and the only one under 20. I made a previous post explaining the situation: Quote: I have small figure yet I still want a tighter stomach so I signed up for the gym. Since signing up I have felt overwhelmingly objectified and sexualised by all the stares by the males in the gym. It makes me feel very uncomfortable and very self conscious leading to lack of concentration. It is not only the glaring, but the intimidating approach the men have with the way they carry themselves like knuckle dragging rugged animals. A man literally approached me dripping with sweating, panting in my face and tried to start a conversation with me whilst "adjusting" himself. It is almost worrying how they get off on towering over me using there size and muscle mass to intimidate women. And that's not even getting in to the unnecessary loud grunts, it is like they are trying so hard to conform to being masculine and the gym has become this sexist stone age place were they compete for females. But now it has escalated, I said to one of the guys I didn't appreciated the attention and then they said I shouldn't dress so provocatively and it is my fault. They even complained to one of the trainers that I was distracting and the guy suggested I covered up if I wanted it to stop. I was so sicken by this, it was as if they were trying to enforce a sexist dress code on me because of their issues which I have no responsibility for. I literally wear plain black leggings and a vest, what do they want me to run in? I need to be flexible for stretches and certain exercises. It all started off with little stuff like stupid make bravado, laughing when I was panting or moaned during an exercise, but after I went out with a guy, I genuinely thought was nice from there, that all changed.:( On the date I was being really flirty and dressed up for him and throughout it all he was a gentleman and wasn't the douche his friends appeared to be from a far, I was really excited and pleased he asked me out as he was like the main popular guy in the gym and also so nice and good looking, I thought he was out of my league. He was great throughout the date but the next week at the gym he was showing off in front of his mates and got super aggressive and basically assaulted me without my consent.:( The next time I saw him I explained I'm not comfortable with him doing that in public,then after that I felt like I was basically raped and violated (but I'm not sure if it quantifies as rape to be honest, so I don't want to say anything about that) since then he has never contacted me and ignored me at gym leaving me to quit. I'm debating to whether to tell my dad and brothers, as they always told me to tell them if a guy did anything like this, but they would beat the hell out of him or maybe I should report it? I feel like he should be stopped for objectifying and assaulting women in the future but don't want to go through the whole criminal case.

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