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Topic: Sexual innuendo


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  Sexual innuendo - Uncyclopedia
While there are no hard and fast rules as to what constitutes sexual innuendo, there have been many mass debates on the topic, and now the general principles at the root of the topic are firm and well-rounded.
A common problem with sexual innuendo is the recipient being unable to wrap their hands around the intended meaning.
Although sexual innuendo requires masterful manipulation of parts of speech (and sometimes the skillful use of body language), for most people it comes quickly.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Sexual_innuendo   (893 words)

  
 Sexual Harassment - MSN Encarta
Because each allegation of sexual harassment is assessed based on the specific circumstances of the case, other courts have concluded that no harassment takes place when employees read pornographic magazines or tell jokes involving sexual innuendo.
Prior to the mid-1970s courts in the United States responded to allegations of sexual harassment by concluding that it was a “private matter.” This approach paralleled the early judicial response to racial discrimination in society.
In 1994 Paula Jones, a former employee of the State of Arkansas, filed a civil lawsuit alleging that she was sexually harassed by U.S. President Bill Clinton while he served as governor of Arkansas.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579949_3/Sexual_Harassment.html   (886 words)

  
 The Iowa Board of Nursing | Home
Sexual misconduct: A specific type of professional misconduct which involves the use of power, influence, and/or special knowledge that is inherent in one's profession in order to obtain sexual gratification from the people a particular profession is intended to serve.
Any and all sexual, sexually demeaning, or seductive behaviors, both physical and verbal, between a service provider (i.e., a nurse) and an individual who seeks or receives the service of that provider (i.e., client), is unethical and constitutes sexual misconduct.
Sexual contact between a nurse and a former client after termination of the nurse-client relationship may still constitute unethical conduct if the sexual contact is a result of the exploitation of trust, knowledge, influence, or emotions derived from the professional relationship.
www.state.ia.us /nursing/sexual_misconduct.html   (1595 words)

  
 Information for Faculty
Sexual harassment creates an environment, which is intolerable and incompatible with the mission and goals of the university.
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
This definition of sexual harassment is not meant to restrict academic freedom as described in Section 4 of the Faculty Manual and it applies to language, activities, and actions inappropriate to the content of a course or other academic activity.
www.american.edu /academics/provost/dean/faculty/harassment_policy.htm   (563 words)

  
 JTS Policies: Policy on Discrimination and Sexual Harassment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sexual harassment is defined as any conduct directed toward an individual or group based on gender that is sufficiently persistent, severe, or pervasive as to alter the individual's employment conditions, educational environment, or living environment, and that creates an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment for employment or education.
In determining whether alleged conduct constitutes sexual harassment, it is necessary to examine all of the relevant information available, including the nature of the conduct, whether such conduct is unwelcome, whether such conduct is persistent, pervasive, or severe, and the context in which the alleged incidents occurred.
Sexual harassment may involve women being harassed by men, men being harassed by women, or harassment between persons of the same sex.
www.jtsa.edu /campus/policies/gsl_sexualharr.shtml   (2025 words)

  
 Whitman College - Faculty Handbook- Sexual Harassment
unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature are made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's education or employment, or when submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual(s) is used as a basis for employment or educational decisions.
Sexual remarks or sexual innuendo about the female/male mind or anatomy which are unrelated to the teaching process or other proper and current college activities.
Sexually explicit or suggestive materials in the classroom, workplace, or other public places, including "pinups" or sexually degrading posters or cartoons, which are unrelated to the teaching process or other proper and current college activities.
www.whitman.edu /dean_of_faculty/handbook/chap9.html   (2633 words)

  
 Dickinson College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sexual relations between persons occupying asymmetrical positions of power, even when both consent, raise suspicions that the person in authority has violated standards of professional conduct and potentially subject the person in authority to charges of sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment of a student by another student is a violation of the Student Code of Conduct and consists of unwanted sexual attention, unwelcome sexual advances, or intimidating, unwanted, or unwelcome verbal and physical conduct of a sexual nature.
The Sexual Harassment Officer is equally available to advise any individual against whom a complaint may have been made about the process of informal and formal complaints, and what involvement that individual may or may not have in the process.
www.dickinson.edu /hrservices/sexharasspolicy.html   (1776 words)

  
 Procedures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Reporting - Any incident of sexual harassment by an employee toward any student, faculty member, or other employee that the reporting party cannot or does not desire to resolve informally should be promptly reported to one of the Contact Persons in the Office of Human Resources.
Sexual harassment is a particularly sensitive issue that may affect any member of the University community.
To assist Notre Dame in preventing sexual harassment, all members of the University community are encouraged to report sexual harassment of others that they witness or otherwise know about.
www.nd.edu /~equity/sexual_harassment/Procedures.shtml   (2094 words)

  
 Psychological Opinions in Sexual Harassment Claims - New England Psychodiagnostics
It is defined as unwelcomed sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when linked to employment conditions, as part of a quid pro quo for employment decisions or when it creates an offensive, hostile work environment.
Sexual harassment behaviors range from sexual innuendo, touching, and flirtatious remarks, to clear-cut sexual assault and rape.
What sexual harassment is and whether or not it occurred are legal and factual matters, but invariably psychological issues become embroiled in them and psychological opinions are frequently presented as part of the claim.
www.psychlaw.com /LibraryFiles/SexualHarassment.html   (1595 words)

  
 Legal Article: Sexual Harassment, Employment Discrimnation: Pennsylvania Lawyers, PA Attorneys
Examples of verbal sexual harassment include: offensive graphic jokes or language; threats; comments and/or questions about a person’s sexual behavior; conversations filled with sexual innuendo and double entendres; comments about a person’s body; and suggestions of a sexual nature.
This means that sexual harassment by supervisory personnel is automatically imputed to the employer when the harassment results in a tangible job detriment to the employee.
While most courts have agreed that quid pro quo sexual harassment results in strict liability for employers, it was unclear whether employers would still be held to a strict liability standard when the harassment did not result in an actual change in the tangible aspects of an employee’s job.
www.munley.com /article_sexual_harassment.html   (5429 words)

  
 Sexual Harrassment Policy - Cumberland, Maryland
Whether particular conduct is considered to be sexual harassment will depend largely upon whether the person subjected to it reasonably believes the conduct is offensive enough to negatively affect his or her work and to create a hostile or abusive work environment.
Sexual harassment may involve the conduct of a manager or supervisor toward a subordinate, or behavior between co-workers.
If a supervisor is informed of or becomes aware of a sexual harassment situation, allegation, or complaint, he or she must promptly report the matter to the Personnel Officer or City Administrator.
www.ci.cumberland.md.us /dept/hr/harass/harass.html   (1491 words)

  
 Innuendo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Innuendo can make use of, but is by no means restricted to, double entendre (note that doubles entendres can be unintentional, while innuendo is always intentional).
When innuendo is used in a sentence, it could go completely undetected by someone who was not familiar with the hidden meaning, and he or she would find nothing odd about the sentence.
Sexual innuendo is common in sitcoms, for instance the character 'The Tod' from NBC's Scrubs (TV series), as well as in radio comedy such as I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Innuendo   (1032 words)

  
 Feminist Majority Foundation
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination when it would not have occurred but for the person's gender.
Sexual harassment is not mutual and is unwelcome.
Sexual harassment in schools is illegal under Title IX of the 1972 Education Act.
www.feminist.org /911/harasswhatdo.html   (2762 words)

  
 PTC Study Reveals Less TV Sex
Sexual content during the Family Hour on ABC is down 67% from 1998, with a 60% decrease since 2000 alone.
Sexual content is down by 12% across all the broadcast networks during the second hour of prime time.
During the Family Hour in 1998, 84% of all sexual content fell into the category of “innuendo.” In 2002, 62% of all sexual content was sexual innuendo and other types of sexual content became more common.
www.parentstv.org /ptc/publications/release/2003/0520.asp   (951 words)

  
 Discrimination/Sexual Harassment/Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is an illegal, reprehensible act of physical aggression and coercion, not an expression of sexual intimacy.
If charges of sexual harassment are made by a student against a faculty member when the faculty member has engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship with the student, it will not be a defense to allege that the relationship was consensual.
If charges of sexual harassment are made by an employee against a supervisor when the supervisor has engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship with a subordinate, it will not be a defense to allege that the relationship was consensual.
www.smumn.edu /sitepages/pid299.php   (3106 words)

  
 FGC Library: Policy on Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment and abuse profoundly violates both the individual and that community of love and trust for which we yearn.
In particular, sexual harassment, both overt and subtle, is a form of misconduct that is demeaning to another person and undermines trust and respect.
Incidents of sexual or other unlawful harassment include (among others) the experience of being sexually harassed, an unjust accusation of sexual harassment, the observation of acts of sexual harassment or the presence of a hostile work environment.
www.fgcquaker.org /library/fosteringmeetings/0304.html   (896 words)

  
 Sexual Harassment Policy
Sexual harassment may involve behavior by a person of either gender against a person of the same or opposite gender.
A hostile environment is a work environment created by repeated, or extreme unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature that is hostile, and intimidating, and that adversely affects an employee's ability to do his or her job.
Sexual harassment behavior by employees or students toward visitors will not be tolerated by the College and will be addressed by this policy.
www.ccp.edu /site/offices/affirmative_action   (1185 words)

  
 SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sexual harassment is any unwanted, non-contact sexual behavior which embarrasses, humiliates, or intimidates an individual on the basis of sex or sexual preference.
Sexual harassment is so pervasive that one may become accustomed to shrugging it off and eventually become numb to it altogether.
www.mattmartin.com /sexual_harr_outline.html   (1408 words)

  
 Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is in direct conflict with this commitment and will not be tolerated.
Sexual harassment is prohibited and defined by federal and state law, and university policy.
Evidences of sexual harassment take many forms, e.g., Verbal: Sexual innuendo, suggestive or demeaning comments, insults, hostile remarks, humor and jokes about sex or gender specific traits, sexual propositions, requests or demands for sexual favors, threats.
www.murraystate.edu /indir/hr/p/NEWVII.htm   (561 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Columns: The Common Law
Laws prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace protect both males and females from unwelcome on-the-job sexual advances or conduct.
Despite the perception that sexual harassment claims are only filed by woman, it is not uncommon for men to file sexual harassment claims.
For example, 14.3% of all sexual harassment claims filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2005 were filed by men.
www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid:429233   (431 words)

  
 NLA Review Spring 1997 - Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
The other form is when the sexual harassment creates a hostile environment, in which the employee is subjected to verbal conduct (such as sexual innuendo, jokes and sexually derogatory remarks), physical touching or graphic displays or sexually-oriented materials.
In sexual harassment cases, particularly hostile work environment cases where the plaintiff may not be fired from his/her job but still experience illegal sexual harassment, back pay or reinstatement are not always appropriate remedies.
Sexual harassment in the workplace, as a unique and distinct offense, is now recognized in France and in the United States.
www.nla.org /library/spring97/pg22.html   (2461 words)

  
 EEO/AA Office-Sexual Harassment Guide
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome acts of a sexual nature including sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and/or other verbal or physical conduct, including written communications, of an intimidating, hostile or offensive nature, or action taken in retaliation for the reporting of such behavior, when:
Complaints of sexual harassment should be filed as soon as possible following the event or occurrence giving rise to the complaint to ensure a complete investigation and prompt resolution of the problem.
In those cases in which a mutually satisfactory resolution of an informal charge or complaint of sexual harassment cannot be achieved, either the accused or the accuser may choose to advance the complaint to the formal complaint or resolution process.
www.musc.edu /eeo/sharass.html   (1496 words)

  
 SEXUAL HARASSMENT BROCHURE PRINTER FRIENDLY
such conduct of a sexual nature is unwelcome and sufficiently severe or pervasive that it unreasonably interferes with a person's academic or professional performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive employment or educational environment.
Sexual innuendo, spreading sexual rumors, sexual put-downs and jokes, remarks of a sexual nature about a person's clothing or body, offensive written notes, sexual propositions, insults, threats.
Such sexual relationships, viewed by parties as mutual, may give rise to questions of favoritism or abuse of trust and power.
www.uhh.hawaii.edu /~eeoaa/sexual_harassment.html   (957 words)

  
 Sexual Harassment Attorneys - Pennsylvania Workplace Sexual Harassment Lawyers - Philadelphia Harassment Law Firm - ...
Sexual harassment is far broader than threats of discharge for rejecting sexual advances.
Sexual harassment statutes are in effect in various forms in all states, generally modeled on the Federal law.
Sexual Harassment Lawyer Disclaimer : This website is dedicated to providing public information regarding sexual harassment, workplace sexual harassment, harassment, discrimination, and other legal information.
www.anapolschwartz.com /practices/sexual_harassment.shtml   (327 words)

  
 Sexual innuendo in the workplace "predatory" not "fun": AIRC. - Australasian Business Intelligence - HighBeam Research
Sexual innuendo in the workplace "predatory" not "fun": AIRC.
Commissioner John Levin said that the worker made offensive sexual remarks and suggestions to his female colleagues.
The worker failed to understand the seriousness of allegations and even during the trial described his behaviour as "a bit of fun".
www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-100901963.html   (149 words)

  
 Sexual Harassment
96.30 Defining the scope of sexual harassment [action or inaction of officials must be based on sex; personal animosity is not sexual harassment; Title IX may not apply to peer sexual harassment], 506.
San Bernardino Valley College, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a tenured professor who used a sexually provocative teaching style was subject to an unlawful "legalistic ambush" when the college sought to discipline him for sexual harassment; a federal district court in Rubin v.
96.37 Sexually abusive "horseplay" as sexual harassment [courts split on same-sex harassment as sexual harassment], 527.
www.collegepubs.com /ref/SfxNdx35.shtml   (2238 words)

  
 The Sexual Surrogate
he number of children sexually abused, the number of teenage pregnancies, the spread of Aids, the high incidence of rape, and the millions of people who are unhappy in their sex lives shows that in our supposedly open and free culture things have really gotten out of hand.
It is the unwarranted sexual repression that causes sexual exploitation and aberrant behavior.
Both the stifling of sexuality and the inevitable rebellion against prudery and ignorance is what puts us at the mercy of our sexual urges rather than being personally in charge of our sexuality.
www.innerself.com /Sex_Talk/Sexual_Surrogate.htm   (513 words)

  
 Movies & Videos
Explicit sexual situations; brief female semi-nudity; crude sexual innuendo, profanity; gun violence; drinking.
There's a lot of profanity, toilet humor and sexual innuendo for the rating, and in two supposedly comic scenes, a boy falsely accuses a man of sexually abusing him.
The rating reflects profanity, a mild sexual situation, subtle sexual innuendo, a few scenes of shooting violence and other moments that are a little gross, including stuff that looks like bones and tissue.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/movies/filmgoer/filmgoer0423.htm   (861 words)

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