Types of Sexual Harassment

Ever wonder the term sexual harassment actually has alot of meanings? Well, if you should know, it could be expressed verbally,non verbally, visually, physically, or mentally.

Those that i mentioned above are self-explanatory and if you dont understand any of it, i could say the acts of sexual harassment that are done verbally are words expressed such as ''sluts,whore, sexy, promiscuous and other unpleasant words to describe a person regardless of gender. For non-verbal acts of sexual harassment could be seen by eye contact, whistling, and more to the body language. However, visually expressed sexual harassment could be explained with the examples of colleagues putting pornography posters on his desk would actually be counted as sexual harassment. As for physical and psychological sexual harassment, we can see that physical body contact between one and another without relation will be accounted as being harassed and psychological harassment could meant undesired social relation or physical intimacy.

But there are other 2 types that are also part of sexual harassment
Those 2 are Hostile environment and Quid Pro Quo

Perhaps these 2 terms would be new to many people as it clearly explains how important the terms can be applied to our daily lives, well mostly toward girls.

Hostile environment is mainly occurred in education since when we were a child, half of the day we spend time in schools,colleges,universities and of course there would be other students in groups or gangs around you. This term applies when an individual or a group tends to disturb or harass a student in school. Examples, whispering in the ear, send unpleasant love messages or even stalking without you noticing. It could actually affects an individual in many aspects because his/her performance would be affected, unwilling to attend classes, and lack of concentration due to environment disturbance.

As for Quid Pro Quo, we can explain it in a way that it usually happens in the workplace where by co-workers or employees are usually at the state of being threatened by their higher authorities or bosses or school girls in school wanting to get good grades resulting involvement of sexual affairs with their teachers. Another term for it can be called Power-player in which the employees are forced to involve in sexual treats in order to get benefits, otherwise, their job is at stake and perhaps lower chances of better future in companies.

Thats it for all. Hope this will acknowledge about sexual harassment!




Especially to girls out there, better be cautious! Prevention is better than cure! or am i wrong ? :D

Posted by : Tan Kah Fei