Men are sexually harassed, too

THE EDITOR: It’s funny your columnist writes from a woman’s perspective about sexual harassment. Let me as a man give my side of this harassment. I have read during my lifetime all the books on sex, love, women that I could lay my hands on. Love, infatuation, call it what you will begins in the sub-conscious mind and if a woman does not get her chemistry bubbling for a particular man let the man strike her off his list. Someone once said the heaviest thing and the lightest thing was a woman’s petticoat — if she does not like you - no way you will be able to lift it and if she likes you it will lift for itself.

Sooting, and making sexual remarks is the mark of fully grown boy children. Let me tell you of “my method.” I never make sexual remarks to a woman. I approach with respect, I show appreciation, kindness, I listen and try to be helpful within limits. If you are in constant contact with women at work or at play for example there would always be women whose chemistry will bubble for you, and they will not be afraid to show it and the more you ignore it the more they will press upon you. I have had women in my department (married or single, it does not matter) who would lean over my desk, show some cleavage and say “Sir, I would like to offer you something, but I am afraid that you might refuse it.” You do not have to be tall, dark or handsome or rich. Women fall through their ears and men through their eyes.

Men boast of the women they have seduced, women boast of the men they have refused. Whenever I go anywhere, where I have to come in contact with women — I feel a tinge of fear. I am afraid that I would be propositioned and I find it very, very difficult to refuse a pretty woman. I don’t like condoms, I don’t like abortions and I am scared about AIDS. I do not run away from temptation, I creep away and keep looking back, I sincerely hope that there is a category for ‘creepers looking back” in heaven. God must have a weird sense of humour, to make women so wholesome, so sweet, so exciting and so irrestible and then command “Don’t touch.!!!” And then again there will be no sex in heaven. Dat is hell.

JACK LEARMOND CRIQUI
Diego Martin