Is it appropriate for a guy to ask if you are wearing any panties? I find it appropriate for my husband to ask me that but not appropriate for anyone else to ask me that male or female.
Are there any circumstances, for a stranger, where this would be appropriate? I can't think of any unless you're possibly buying sex from a prostitute or such. If that was the case I guess this would not be out of line.
How about if there were no discernible panty line? Would you be asking for it? No.
How about if he then went the extra step of trying to look up your skirt or using a camera to do so, or even lifting it? Wow, this is way wrong and goes the next level up from inappropriate. Sexual harrassment in my opinion.
What would be appropriate recourse, especially if they?d been repeatedly asked to desist? I would become highly agitated and might give the person a swift kick to the nuts I guess or press charges or call someone for help because I would start getting scared of this person.
Several years ago I was sexually harrassed at work. It was not pretty and it made work horrible. In the end it got so bad I went to the supervisor. This male work mate had cornered me in the storage room and made and did improper sexual advances to me. I was so shook up that I did go to my supervior and told him what was happening and what happened in the storage room. My supervior was just appalled and outraged. He called the guy into his private office and let him have it verbally and would have fired him on the spot if I wouldn't have said I didn't want that. I just wanted it to STOP! He really wanted to fire him and throw him out the door. The harasser was married with three kids and one income and I didn't want his kids to suffer for his actions. Everything worked out in the end but he did have it permanently entered in his personnel file with it hanging over his head that one more incident and he would be terminated.
