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1 1.A coach slaps one of his female players on the butt as she walks past to go on the field.

2 2.A female tutor arrives for her session with a male student and suddenly gives him a hug and a kiss on the cheek as she comes through the door.

3 3.A group of students from an opposing team yells obscenities at a female goalie, and one of them threatens her sexually if she keeps the other team from scoring.

4 4.A young woman gets drunk at a party and a male friend (also drunk) grabs her breast as she walks by.

5 5.A group of students at a party is playing spin the bottle. One guy in the group tells his friends he’s tired and doesn’t feel like playing. The rest of the group call him a baby and threaten to tell the whole school what a baby he is if he doesn’t play.

6 6.A town librarian is helping a gender-fluid college student locate a book for a research project. At one point, the librarian tells them how handsome they are, touches their hair and says, “There are books I could show you that are a lot sexier than this.”

7 7.A group of college freshmen is at a pool party. One of the young men has had a lot to drink and begins making sexual comments to the women. Suddenly, he pulls his bathing suit down and flashes his genitals at them.

8 8.Mike, an eighteen-year-old high school senior, has a crush on his male youth group leader, who is twenty-three. The youth group leader drives Mike home one day and tells Mike he would like to kiss him. Mike agrees.

Now, take another quick look; do any of these examples qualify as harassment? If so, which ones?

When you’re finished, check out your answers. In terms of which scenarios qualify as harassment, if you answered with something like, “They all do,” then you are on the right track! The scenarios described in questions one, two, four, five and six could all be classified as sexual assault, since they involve unwanted sexual touch. The scenarios offered in questions three and seven would also classify, since the offenders made sexual threats (to the goalie and to the group of women at the pool party.) In question eight, although Mike is eighteen, his youth group leader’s role creates a power differential in their relationship. Though Mike consented to the kiss, the youth leader overstepped the boundary of that role, classifying his action as sexual assault.