Verbal
The following behaviors may contribute to creating a hostile environment :
- Derogatory comments of a sexual nature or based on gender
- Comments about clothing, personal behavior, or a person's body
- Sexual or gender-based jokes or teasing
- Requests for sexual favors
- Repeated requests for dates
- Terms of endearment, such as "honey," "dear," "sweetheart," "babe"
- References to an adult as "girl" or "boy," "doll" or "hunk"
- Sexual innuendoes or stories
- Grunts, wolf whistles, catcalls, hoots, sucking noises, lip-smacks and animal noises
- Tales of one's partner's sexual inadequacies or prowess
- Tales of sexual exploitation
- Graphic descriptions of pornography
- Obscene phone calls or emails
- Lies or rumors about a person's personal or sex life
- Puns such as turning work discussions to sexual topics