A. 
Title VII Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandates that each and every working person has the legal right to work in an environment free from harassment of any form including sexual harassment.
B. 
Sexual harassment is illegal. It's considered a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
C. 
The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission guidelines define "sexual harassment" as: unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when submission to such conduct by an individual is made explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of employment; submission to, or rejection of such conduct has the purpose or affect to interfere with an individual's work performance, or creates a hostile or intimidating environment.
A. 
This form of sexual harassment occurs when requests for sexual favors are made and rejection of the request results in unfavorable employment consequences or submission to the request results in favorable job conditions.
B. 
Quid pro quo (Latin term meaning "this for that") sexual harassment is about power. When a supervisor puts an employee in the position of having to choose between loss of job security and sex, the supervisor is misusing the power that comes with the responsibility of leadership.
A. 
This type of harassment occurs when the behavior of an individual unreasonably interferes with one's ability to perform on the job. The harassment creates an environment where the individual feels intimidated or the environment is offensive.
B. 
Work place sexual harassment can be created by a single incident or by a series of incidents. Harassment can be:
(1) 
Physical (physical contact).
(2) 
Verbal (spoken or written words including derogatory comments, jokes and stories of a sexual nature, etc., and a variety of sounds including whistling, groaning, etc.)
(3) 
Nonverbal (suggestive looks, etc.)
(4) 
Visual (calendars, posters, photos, computer screen savers, etc.)
A. 
When any unwanted, unwelcome or unsolicited sexual conduct is imposed on a person who regards it as offensive or undesirable, it is sexual harassment. When a person communicates that the conduct is unwelcome, it becomes illegal. Even if the conduct is implicit in nature, hidden in subtlety or innuendo, as long as it is unwelcome, it is unlawful.
B. 
The perception of the recipient determines whether the behavior is unwelcome. The intent of the message or behavior of the harasser is irrelevant. It's the impact of the behavior on the recipient that determines whether harassment has taken place.
A. 
The purpose of the reasonable person standard is to determine whether behavior is appropriate or inappropriate based on what a reasonable person put in the same position would say.
B. 
Some people are so sensitive that they consider nearly everything said to them offensive, especially if they dislike the speaker. Other people are the opposite. They are not offended by even the most vulgar comments or behaviors. The reasonable person standard seeks to eliminate the extremes that may exist between individuals who are too sensitive or too insensitive to the problems of sexual harassment.