ABSTRACT
It is of interest that the concept of Avodah Zarah, which means literary idolatry, was according to the Jewish tradition embedded in the same yetzer that comprises the sexual desire.Since the bulk of such harassing bullies are young and powerful, it should be of interest to establish which cultural norm leads people to prefer an encounter that precipitates the risk of deflating the “Pigmalionic-Casanovian” ego when flirting, which constitutes the other side of harassment, could buttress this self-image and enrich one’s romantic imagination. While flirting is dialogic, imaginative, and ego strengthening due to its ambiguous nature, the cutting of erotic interactions by defining them as sexual harassments is sexually repressive and oppressive because, practically, antiharassment measures abruptly stop the libidinal encounter. The two behavioral categories of sexual harassment and romantic flirting were then examined as two sides of one coin, of which one side is spiritual and the other physical.
