Admiration without boundaries – Alien Skin asks celebrities to stop beating fans

As celebrities champion their right to decent treatment and respect, Alien Skin recently posted a picture of his fans reaching out to him on stage with this caption, “Some times your fans touch you, to feel and confirm whether you’re real. Bambi temubakuba 🙏.”

In the picture, male fans seem to bustle before Skin trying to touch him.

While discussing the public safety of celebrities and public figures, experts have said, “Consent is crucial at every stage of a relationship and among strangers. Because someone is a public figure, it does not give them the right to touch a celebrity without their permission. Consent is important even if a relationship is decades-long or two people are married.”

There seems to be widespread victim confusion in these cases when the celebrity who reacts to or condemns fan behaviour in regard to their personal space becomes the perpetrator despite the number of times it is addressed.

According to The Mend project, in any interaction, these are some of the tactics that perpetuate abusive and inappropriate behaviour; “denial, dismissing, joking “that was just a joke”, gaslighting, lying, and power play to make the other feel emotionally less deserving, impotent and powerless.”