Harassment

Harassment is one of the most dangerous pests on society, as it is an incurable disease whose material and psychological impact is spread on the victim, as well as this effect is widespread on all family members and infiltrates the community. Many limit the recourse to the judiciary or the law, the most important of which is the lack of evidence of harassment, and the lack of witnesses to the act, so the harasser remains in a cycle of fear and escaping from reality.

Sexual harassment is one of the worst types of violence and means unwanted words or actions bearing a sexual character and violating the body, privacy, and feelings of the person, and because of that, he feels threatened, insecure, dread, fear, lack of respect, intimidation, insult, abuse or violation.

Forms of sexual harassment

Harassment can take many forms, and it may include one or more forms at the same time: Intensified sexual gaze:

• The indecent staring: Gazing at someone's body or eyes, and looking at them carefully with gazes carrying sexual overtones.

• Facial expressions: making facial expressions with sexual intentions such as cunnilingus, blinking, and opening the mouth.

• Calls: The sounds that carry sexual overtones such as whistling, screaming, whispering, and sobs.

• Comments: making notes of a sexual nature about someone's body or clothes, or telling offensive sexual jokes or stories.

• Harassment through technology: by sending offensive or inappropriate comments, messages, photos, or videos via e-mails, instant messages, social media sites, forums, blogs, or online dialogue sites all of a sexual nature.

• Sexual cues They are the issuance of signals of a sexual nature directed at a person such as touching, feeling, tingling, itching, getting close to the person’s body a lot, violent constipation, and straining.

• Nakedness: Taking off and taking off clothes in front of someone to see the genitals, or masturbating in front of someone without their desire.

The process of sexual harassment and its various types may occur in public or private places, such as the street, the place of employment, in public transport, schools, universities and colleges, restaurants, markets, inside the home, and even in social relations within the family of relatives and friends, and through the means of the Internet.

The molester

It is everyone who practices acts and forms of harassment, such as a newly offensive and unwanted sexual act or act, and this harasser has a criminal history, sexual harassment or previous psychological diseases, and among the most important psychological diseases that the harasser may suffer from are schizophrenia and schizophrenia, addiction to alcohol and drugs, and learning difficulties, And multiple personality disorders, pathological symptoms in the cerebral cortex, and the presence of conclusive evidence of sexual arousal to images of children, violent scenes, exposure in childhood to sexual abuse, low self-esteem, and social isolation.

The harasser may suffer from a perception defect because he believes that the victim agrees to the act, or because of the low feeling of sympathy for the victim and the lack thereof. 77%, India 79%, Vietnam 87%, and street harassment in Australia reached 87%, while in the United States the rate of street harassment was 65%, and women in homes did not feel safe due to fear of harassment, which accounted for 37%, and the rate of sexual harassment In children, the global statistics have reached 70%, with more than one type or form of harassment.

Causes of sexual harassment

• Weak religious conviction: turning away from religion, weakness of faith that all religions called for, and the inability of the individual to control desires and follow them.

• The absence of a parental role: neglect of children, poor parenting, lack of consideration for their physical and psychological requirements, and the use of violence towards them, all of this may create harassing behavior.

• Presence in dangerous environments: such as areas without persons, areas crowded with individuals between the ages of 18-28 years, and places where there is no adequate security control, being infamous places where cases of harassment are frequent, such as areas where people with a history of abuse or addicts reside, and which Generally speaking, violence and crime rates are high.

Prevention of harassment

• Have tools to protect yourself from harassment, including Hijab, hair, and leaf pins, and there are also dedicated pins. Slapping gives the impression that the victim does not easily give up and has a strong will to resist.

• Taser. Sharp universal tools for knives, scalpels, and Eye spray, which is a mixture of black and red pepper, hot and hot spices.

• Staying away from dangerous areas that are empty of residents, moving away from walking alone, avoiding closed places, and contacting the nearest police unit by putting the number in the emergency box and speed dialing.

• Not to bring a stranger into the house, or to ride in and talk to him. Avoid wearing clothes that invite temptation and arouse sexual desires.

• Teaching children everything related to harassment and its types, as harassment is not related to girls only, but it also includes males, and parents and schools must use appropriate words and terms for harassment by their age and cognitive perception