ABSTRACT
Women are far more likely than men to define specific behaviors as harassment and to find them less acceptable. In most respects, college women are the "ideal" targets for sexual harassers. Counseling of harassment victims must be on their terms. When the abusiveness of perpetrators and the innocence of those who suffer because of them is apparent, one's strongest instincts are to propel harassees forward to a point at which they too will feel righteous anger at their plights. Education and expertise are clearly essential in counseling those who are seriously damaged by first-time harassment, but they are even more crucial in situations in which the harassee has formerly suffered sexual abuse. Without question, sexual harassment creates victims. Their numbers are legion, and often their injuries are enormous. When the time is right, the most compelling lesson victims can learn is the power of choice, action, and thus survival.
