How to stop unwanted advances from a friend?
I have a male friend who has always been 'clingy' to me and told me he liked me even when I was still engaged (now separated). I told him obviously nothing was going to happen, I love(d) my partner. After he proceeded to grab my breasts in front of said fiancé at a party I told him to back off.
After my fiancé and I separated he messaged me quite a bit, just friendly conversation, helping me sort things out in my head, I thought my warning had worked.
The minute... No, the second I admitted I was over my ex the inappropriate comments and actions started again. I can't hang out with our mutual friends if he is going to be there because it makes the whole group uncomfortable. We sit on the couch to watch a movie and I always make sure I'm in between 2 other friends... But the second they get up he jumps in the seat and is all over me.
It doesn't matter how many times I tell him to PLEASE dial it back, we are just friends, nothing more, he doesn't stop. I can't avoid him completely as it means losing an entire group of friends.
A bit of backstory on him. He is for lack of a better word, a complete pervert. Slaps people on the butt all the time, send me messages asking for kisses... He even asked me (seriously) to come round and give him a BJ one time. He also is on the sex offender register for an act he committed 6 years ago on a minor.
He's 24 and a virgin... And everyone knows why... He's clingy and desperate and just pushes too much. He also has some serious issues with depression and jealousy.
I visited a (female) friends house and another one of our (male) friends dropped around too. The guy friend did that Facebook thing where you tag people at a place with the 3 of us. A minute later I got a text from him asking if I was "having fun with 'male friend'".
I really don't know what to do.
Asking him to stop does nothing.
He just says "Ok" and then the next day he's back at it again. He even changed his relationship status on FB, he says as a joke, but he wanted people to think we were dating because it would be "funny".
Sorry for the novel, I'm just at a loss, I've never had to deal with this before.