EXAMPLES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
• A professor hugs, pats, or otherwise touches you in a sexual way that
upsets you or makes you feel uncomfortable. As a result, you may think
about dropping that course.
• Your
TA promises you a better grade or academic opportunity in return
for sexual favors, or implies that your academic record will suffer if you
refuse.
• A student is spreading rumors about your sexuality and won’t stop
spreading the rumors even after you ask them to stop.
• Your roommate has displayed sexually suggestive pictures on their wall.
• A staff member, who you encounter frequently, makes a habit of
expressing hostility and disgust toward gay people every time you are
present. You have made no secret of being gay yourself.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND
OTHER RELATED ACTS OF MISCONDUCT
Old Dominion University’s Discrimination Policy prohibits gender based
harassment including: sexual assault, sexual exploitation, dating violence,
domestic violence, and stalking.
• Sexual
Assault is non-consensual contact of a sexual nature. It includes
any sexual contact when the victim does not or is unable to consent
through the use of force, fear, intimidation, physical helplessness,
ruse, impairment or incapacity (including impairment or incapacitation
as a result of the use of drugs or alcohol, knowingly or unknowingly);
intentional and non-consensual touching of, or coercing, forcing, or
att empting to coerce or force another to touch, a person’s genital area,
groin, inner thigh, buttocks or breast; and non-consensual sexual
intercourse, defined as anal, oral or vaginal penetration with any object.
• Sexual
Exploitation occurs when a person takes non-consensual or
abusive sexual advantage of another for anyone’s advantage or benefit
other than the person being exploited, and that behavior does not meet
the definition of sexual assault. Sexual exploitation includes prostituting
another person, non-consensual visual or audio recording of sexual activity,
non-consensual distribution of photos or other images of an individual’s
sexual activity or intimate body parts with an intent to embarrass such
individual, non-consensual voyeurism, knowingly transmitting a Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
to another, or exposing one’s genitals to another in non-consensual
circumstances.
• Dating Violence is violence committed by a person who is or has been in
a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. A
3