Sexual Harassment As Victims Of Sexual Assault Of Males

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According to the Oxford Dictionary, “sexual harassment is the harassment (typically of a woman) in a workplace, or other professional or social situation, involving the making of unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks”. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States defines sexual harassment as “sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature and offensive remarks about a person’s sex”. Similarly, and personally, I would say sexual harassment is unwanted sexual behavior towards someone, which may be caused by arousal or attraction and done in desire of pleasing oneself. In this paper, I am going to show how men are also victims of sexual harassment even though there is little …show more content…

Although, for purposes of this research, the term ‘man’ is used to refer to males of all ages ranging from adults, teenagers, children and toddlers or infants. It is the hypothesis of this paper that both men and women get assaulted by people of either the opposite sex or the same sex. Personally, I have witnessed that most of the cases regarding the sexual assault of men are rarely given proper consideration. Therefore, this has acted as a driving force in selecting this issue as a research question for this paper. This project aims to identify why society perpetuates the perception that it is only women who are sexually abused and also to explain why all genders must be treated equally in the case of sexual assault. I hope to come up with plausible suggestions supported by reliable research and evidence which establishes a fundamental understanding of why people do not take the assault of men seriously. PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE I think that the effects of sexual assault vary among every individual victim. However, all victims suffer painful experiences. Therefore, I am very much against people who make excuses about men falling victim to sexual

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