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c'est la meme chose.
temptation, instead of trying to find a mutual solution with their own spouse or partner, they are liable to discover plus ¢a change, plus
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
In civil law today, sexual harassment includes verbal or nonverbal forms of abuse of a person of the opposite sex, usually men against women. In many countries, including Israel and some states of the U.S., this is now recognized as a punishable misdemeanor. Maimonides codified such offenses in the twelfth century:
It is forbidden to make indecent gestures with his hands or feet or suggestions with his eyes to women with whom intercourse is prohibited. These acts may render the perpetrator liable to flogging by way of admonition and rebuke, if they were committed purposefully.” Even though this is a deed in which the woman is not physically touched and may possibly, have been seen as“a sin without action,” which is usually not punished, the Rambam derives the severity of this deed from the Torah prohibitions:“For whoever shall do any of these abominations... shall be cut off from among the people. So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable custom that were practiced before you and never to defile yourselves by them...(Lev.18:29-30)." Maimonides details these forbidden acts:“...[One] is prohibited to act with levity, to smell her perfume, to look at her beauty... even one who looks at her little finger with the intention of pleasure as one looks at her pudenda, and even to listen to the voice of this woman or to look at her hair.'®