News About Sexual Harassment

Q: Curious about a recent sexual harassment case? A woman today was awarded $1.7M after enduring a company function that had the losing team (men and women) of a competition eat baby food, wear diapers (over clothes), and be spanked with their competitors yard signs. She further alleged sexual assault which the jury did not find. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060429/ap_o... While very peculiar, is this sexual? If a man complained about the same thing, does he have a case?

A: Some people view spanking adults as a sexual act. On the kinkier side of things, people engage in spanking as foreplay. If, in an office situation, a man swatted a female on her behind, it would be viewed as sexual. So perhaps even though this took place within the confines of a "comrade building exercise" the fact that a female got swatted, it could be interpreted as sexual. Let's be practical here, if you are going to claim "injury" over this, you have to pile on as much as possilbe. Adding sexual harassment MAY have been the brain child of a lawyer. Of course, perhaps she really felt that way

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