About 65 percent of Kaohsiung residents have personally experienced sexual harassment, according to results of an opinion poll released on Tuesday.
The survey, conducted by the Social Affairs Bureau of the Kaohsiung city government, interviewed 1,962 residents of Kaohsiung last month, with 85 percent of the respondents male and the rest female.
The survey results show that 80 percent of the women respondents claimed to have experienced sexual harassment in some form, while 35 percent of the men admitted to a similar experience.
The forms of harassment covered by the survey included harassment by language, gestures, exposure of sexual organs, showing pornographic pictures to other people and staring at women's breasts or other body parts.
The statistics also show that 18 percent of the respondents choose to ignore the harassment, while 20 percent said they tolerate the experience without telling anyone. Another 21 percent said they complain to a family member, a friend or a colleague.
About 19 percent of the respondents said they tongue-lash the perpetrator, while another 8 percent said they physically attack the alleged perpetrator. Only 5 percent said they report the harassment to the police or seek legal recourse.
Social Affairs Bureau officials said the newly promulgated Sexual Harassment Prevention Law (
Under the new law, a victim of alleged sexual harassment can file a complaint with the company for which the perpetrator works or with the local government. The agency or government unit must then investigate the complaint, and offenders could face two years in prison.
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