<p>Sexual harassment in online dating is an increasingly prevalent form of violence, but existing research has not fully captured its distinctive dynamics and severity. Drawing on Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence, this study examines the experiences of Chinese women subjected to online dating harassment and the strategies they employ to resist it. The analysis identifies this dispersed, invisible, and attritional form of harassment as a manifestation of slow violence, which inflicts gradual yet irreversible harm on women over time. In addition, our findings indicate that female victims actively adopt preventive resistance strategies that could mitigate the harm at the individual level. However, such efforts remain largely confined within the victimized community and are insufficient to challenge the structural roots underpinning the pervasive nature of online sexual harassment.</p>