After semen balloon attack on girls of Lady Shri Ram College hits headlines, student from JMC shares her ordeal

A day after it was reported that students of New Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College for Women had been victims of semen-filled water balloons, another college, the Jesus and Mary College, have also claimed a similar ordeal, after a Facebook post by one of the victims went viral.

This is the text of her Facebook post.

“So the festival of ‘fun’ is here! Time for colours, eggs, dirty water and oh how can I forget the most important one- SEMEN.

It was just another usual day of travelling back home from college..

The bus stopped a little after Sagarpur bus stop. And that’s when it happened.

Before I even realised it, a guy threw a balloon filled with semen straight at my chest. For a few minutes I was just shocked and by the time I recovered from it, he and his friends were gone. I was DISGUSTED and really furious. And that’s when a lady sitting in front of me said, “Beta, Bura mat mano holi hai” And the others in the bus laughed and said the same to me. I didn’t know whom to be more disgusted on- the idiot who threw it or the crowd who normalised it.

Till yesterday, I had just heard about semen throwing at girls and my heart was broken to hear it.

Today I was the victim to it and that was when I wholly realized and understood the absolute depravity of human beings.

I would have said humans behave like animals but then that’s a disgrace to animals in itself.

Yesterday, it was a girl from LSR, Today it was me, and there are plenty of girls with whom this is happening, who are just too afraid or embarrassed to speak up. And I don’t blame them but then if we don’t speak up now, these fools roaming around our country will continue doing the same and God forbid another innocent girl might get targetted.

And to all the girls out there, do not be afraid to speak up when such things happen to you. Your dignity and self Respect is important and not something to be fooled around with.

Be bold and take a stand, rest assured there are many like me who will have your back.”

Although yet to file an FIR, the victim along with other students of Jesus and Mary College will be organising a protest at the Delhi Police Headquarters in ITO today (March 1) at 11.00am, Indian Express reported.

Earlier, students from New Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College have alleged that locals from nearby areas have been throwing water balloons filled with semen, in what appears to be the latest case of sexual harassment and tormenting of women in the national capital.

According to a report by Scroll, a hostel resident of the college described how she was hit by one of the balloons. “It dried white on my black leggings, and the foreign smell clearly indicated that it wasn’t water,” she wrote. But she did not know what it was until a friend in the hostel told her that “semen-flinging…was currently the Holi fad in the back market area”.

The college’s women’s development cell held an open meeting with about 40 students during lunch break on Tuesday. A teacher who attended it said she was stunned to hear that the psychology student’s experience was “not one isolated incident”. 

Notably the report added that such cases of harassment did not surprise the alumnus of the college, some who told the news website that they had been struck by the balloons, adding that this was the first time it was being reported on social media.

Some people, mostly men, have rubbished the allegations, getting into the scientific composition of semen. One person even claimed that to ‘make a balloon filled with semen, about 50 odd men would have to ejaculate in a balloon at the same time.’