IN A RECENT study on the sexual harassment of men, one public utility worker expressed his experience: "I have never been harassed. Sexual harassment of men is hardly heard of in my job. I can't ... recall of even hearing of sexual harassment towards men."

Other men in the survey were even more forthcoming, stating that they were "not sexually harassed often enough," or, in one comment, that sexual harassment "kind of makes the job more fun."

Research on sexual harassment has revealed what many suspected—sexual harassment is not a serious problem for most men. Men are not typically affected by comments about their bodies. They do not often mind pressure for dates. Also, men rarely find themselves on the wrong end of aggressive sexual conduct. Nevertheless, the sexual harassment of men does occur—more often than most researchers at...