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Good example. I'm also reminded of the studies showing that people are really perfectly capable of understanding polite brush-offs as "no" when the context is anything other than asking for sex. I did a similar exercise (on assertiveness, not self-defence precisely) where partners simply had to walk towards eachother slowly, and yeah, you could tell when you were too close. I hesitate a little, because I'm bad at reading non-verbal cues, but I realize that some people are actually disablingly bad and worse off than me (whether or not they have an official diagnosis). But yeah, it's a good lesson, at some point you have to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt, because it's exactly that benefit of the doubt that allows ill-intentioned folk to push even harder against boundaries.