Groping

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A sign on a station platform in Osaka, Japan, showing the boarding point for a ladies-only car.

Groping, when used in a sexual form, is touching another person in an aggressively sexual way. Areas of the body most frequently groped include buttocks, breasts and thighs. When done without permission or against the will of another person, this can be considered a form of sexual abuse.

Incidents of groping on mass transit such as trains and buses are widespread in Japan where suburban trains are often crowded, resulting in close physical being unavoidable. Men may use this to their advantage when commiting groping. Some trains operators have introduced women-only cars to help combat the problem (see picture).

There are some magazines and websites dedicated to groping women in trains, where the perpetrators discuss their favorite pastime and share experiences. Groping is a somewhat popular fetish in Japanese pornography.

[edit] In other situations

Grope is a general term, meaning "To reach about uncertainly; to feel one's way in the dark"

Computing - When used in computing - Grope describes the process when the computer boots up. The computer gropes its interfaces to ascertain what peripheral devices are attached. This is actually achieved by sending a peripheral sense command and waiting for the response code to come back.

Business and Taxation - When used to minimise taxation and or exploit a loophole detrimentally - Groping describes the process of exploting in a detrimental manor any tax insentive program that is meant to benefit industry and or the environment. Example. Using a forestry investment program to get a 100% tax deduction on the cost of tree planting, soley to meet Kyoto protocol green house requirements. The forests are planted in an area with little transport taking up land more suited to farming; with no intention of ever harvesting the trees for lumber or even wood chip thus destroying the local economy contrary to the intentions of the investment program.