Sexual harassment can occur anywhere and in any circumstance. This article will limit itself to sexual harassment in the work environment. Sexual harassment is a superior or supervisor conditioning continued employment, salary, promotion, good evaluations, bonuses and the like, on putting out sexual favors as a term and condition of employment. Sexual harassment is touching, stroking, grabbing at private parts, attempting to make the victim touch the harassers, and other assaulting behaviors. Sexual harassment is the creation of a hostile working environment by the use of obscene words and phrases, posting of nude pictures and cartoons, obscene gestures, etc.
Sexual harassment is the importuning of sexual favors from an unwilling victim.
The classic case of sexual harassment is the secretary being harassed by her boss for a little extracurricular activity. Before I get into legal remedies, there are in certain limited circumstances, things that can be done to stop sexual harassment in a practical way without recourse to the law. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. The following sometimes works in circumstances with men who believe that a woman has to belong to some male. The boss has made his desires clear and the lady wants nothing to do with him.