What evidence is needed to qualify as sexual harassment?

Sexual harassment refers to harassment based on sexual desire, using sexually suggestive words, actions, or religious rituals to target the harassed object. Usually the offender physically touches the victim's gender-specific parts, hindering the victim's freedom of behavior. and trigger a resistance response in the victim. There is no unified definition of the manifestations of sexual harassment. In many countries, sexual harassment is an illegal behavior.

Forms of expression

The main forms of sexual harassment are as follows:

1. Oral method: such as teasing the other party with obscene language and telling them about their personal sexual behavior. Experiences, dirty jokes or pornographic literary and artistic content;

2. Method of action: intentionally touching, bumping, kissing the other person’s face, breasts, legs, buttocks, vulva and other sexually sensitive parts;

3. Setting up the environment: that is, placing obscene pictures, advertisements, etc. around the workplace or church to embarrass the other party.

Main Type Editor

Compensatory Sexual Harassment: Most sexual harassers belong to this type of men. The impulse caused by long-term sexual deprivation or sexual hunger will inevitably lead him to commit indecent assaults on women. offensive behavior. The harassment behavior of such people is mostly due to varying degrees of loss psychology. The purpose of harassment is not so much to possess a woman as to take advantage.

Game-type sexual harassment: Most of them are men who have had sexual experience, understand the weaknesses of women, regard women as playthings, and are indecent and disrespectful to women out of a deliberate game mentality. Such men are generally "hunters" or playboys. The purpose of harassment is partly to seek novelty, but also to prove one's male "potential energy" and "ability".

Power-based sexual harassment: It often occurs between bosses and employees or supervisors and subordinates, especially female secretaries. Most of the harassers are relatively well-educated. Although they often harass people out of a game mentality, their behavior is more "advanced" and "polite" than ordinary gamers. Most of these harassers regard women as "consumer goods", and because of the obvious interest relationship, they even think that women like this kind of harassment and regard this kind of harassment as their own "patent."

Aggressive sexual harassment: Most of these men have had an unpleasant relationship history with women in their early years, have a greater dislike and hatred for women, and regard women as lower animals or enemies. His harassment is deliberately harmful or offensive. Sometimes the harasser does not want to possess the woman, but just to satisfy and balance his contempt and hatred for women.

Pathological sexual harassment: This is sexual harassment with obvious pathological manifestations, such as so-called voyeurism and exhibitionism. Most of these male harassers are truly sexually dysfunctional. The harassment itself can bring him strong sexual impulses and fantasies, but it cannot "cure" him. On the contrary, it will deepen his illness.