ABSTRACT
The ongoing public debate about sexual harassment and its regulation is fueled by the fact that sex at work has not disappeared. In spite of dire warnings about humorless feminists, overzealous regulators, and paranoid plaintiffs squeezing every last vestige of sexuality out of the workplace, sexual banter and joking endures, along with more severe and intrusive behaviors. Thus, the experience the woman described in the quotation above is not unusual in the US workplace. Yet this comment also illustrates a pervasive concern among policy-makers and managers: people may have widely diverging interpretations of similar behaviors.
