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A model secretly filmed her walk in New Zealand to see if men would catcall her. They didn't.

By Alex Abad-Santos
Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent who explains what society obsesses over, from Marvel and movies to fitness and skin care. He came to Vox in 2014. Prior to that, he worked at the Atlantic.

In New York City, we found out that a woman walking around for 10 hours will receive over 100 instances of catcalls and/or street harassment. In New Zealand, the New Zealand Herald conducted the same experiment with a female model. And The Herald found out that New Zealand is not New York City:

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