Each person has different standards of what constitutes sexual harassment, said Ens.
Because the very nature of the acts was sexual, they constitute sexual harassment, he argues.
But a Federal jury has found that, along the way, the office environment involved a certain hostility to women that constituted sexual harassment.
It is rare for courts to rule that a single incident constitutes sexual harassment.
I also believe that this kind of behavior constitutes harassment under the state's harassment law.
But I do recognize that sexually explicit expression can constitute harassment.
We also will never know whether the ultimate decision maker would have found that the alleged facts, if true, constitute sexual harassment.
The legal and social definition of what constitutes sexual harassment differ widely by culture.
The Commission's replies say nothing specific about the communications which take place and whether this ultimately constitutes harassment.