• Direct or indirect threats or bribes for unwanted sexual activity.
  
  
• Sexual innuendoes and comments.
  
  
• Intrusive sexually explicit questions.
  
  
• Sexually suggestive sounds or gestures such as sucking noises, winks, or pelvic thrusts.
  
  
• Repeatedly asking a person out for dates or to have sex.
  
  
• Rating a person's sexuality.
  

• Ogling or leering, staring at a woman's breast or man's derriere.
  

• Spreading rumors about a person's sexuality.
  

• Graffiti about a person's sexuality.
  

• Name-calling, such as "bitch", "whore" or "slut".
  

• Frequent jokes about sex for males/females.
  

• Letters, notes, telephone calls, or material of a sexual nature.
  

• Pervasive displays of pictures, calendars, cartoons or other materials with sexually explicit or graphic content.
  

• Stalking a person.
  

• Attempted or actual sexual assault.
  

• Pressure for sexual activities accompanied by implied promises of special treatment or threats concerning an individual's employment status or academic status.
  

• Any unwanted physical contact such as patting, pinching, grabbing, backrubs, neck rubs, blocking, cornering, pinning against the wall, touches, brushes, hugs, footsies, kneesies, wolf whistles.
  

What To Do/Who To Contact:

• Tell the offender the behavior is unwelcome and must stop.
  
  
• Document any further harassment.
  

• Discuss the situation with one of the members of the Sexual Harassment Resource Group at this link.
  

• Consult the UW Oshkosh Policy on sexual harassment at this link.
  

If you have questions or need further information, please contact the Affirmative Action Office at (920) 424-0330 or (920) 424-2296

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