A survey, which is attempting to gauge what people from seven European countries consider to be acts of sexual harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, has discovered some rather interesting results.
YouGov asked 8,490 men and women from Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden where they consider the boundaries of what constitutes sexual harassment begin, posing a number of questions to respondents.
These questions were varied, from whether people considered telling a woman a sexual joke to constitute harassment, to looking at her breasts, or asking her out on a date.
People from all seven countries agreed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that taking pictures up womens' skirts was an act of sexual harassment (go figure!), as was grabbing their behind or exposing themselves to women.
However, one interesting aspect of the study related to staring at women's breasts. According to the survey, a relatively small proportion of German women, 36 percent, considered ogling their breasts to be an act of sexual harassment, the number was even lower for men, with 22 percent of Männer thinking it was out of line.
Fifty percent of British respondents thought it was sexual harassment, roughly the same number of their French counterparts agreed.
One aspect nearly all the Europeans surveyed agreed upon was that winking at a woman was fine, except for the French, 23 percent of whom disapproved.