I think that AT&T bears some of the blame for groping. For years, they had the advertisement “Read Out and Touch Someone”, which may have tacitly implied that unwanted touching was an acceptable thing to do. It’s subtle, but then advertising usually is. As to your question about penalties – you’re jumping too fast into the details. In a different question last night, someone asked “what is abuse? what is unwanted touching? What constitutes harassment?”. That’s the fundamental issue – definition. One woman may define harassment one way, and another woman another way. There is no consistent definition of any of these terms. The law can’t be built on squishy standards. If we’re going to put people in jail for touching, then the law need to know what touching is allowed and not allowed. Because if society doesn’t have legal standards, then what we have is, essentially, no law at all. So before we start getting into penalties, let’s try and classify the offenses in some cogent and consistent way.