61 |STEVENS ANNUAL SECURITY AND FIRE SAFETY REPORT • Unwelcome jokes, comments or questions about gender or sex (including favorable comments about someone’s gender, body, clothing, appearance); • Asking about a person’s sexual activities or interests; • Repeatedly asking for a date or making other romantic or sexual advances after the person has said “no;” • Nonverbal behavior, such as making sexual gestures with hands or through body movements; • Displaying sexually discriminatory or explicit posters or pictures; and • Electronic and other forms of communications including e-mail, text messaging and internet use, that violate the Title IX Policy. Sexual Exploitation An act or acts committed through non-consensual abuse or exploitation of another person’s sexuality for the purpose of sexual gratification, financial gain, personal benefit or advantage, or any other non- legitimate purpose. An act of sexual exploitation is prohibited even though the behavior does not constitute one of the other sexual misconduct offenses. Examples of sexual exploitation include: • Observing another individual’s nudity or sexual activity or allowing another to observe consensual sexual activity without the knowledge and consent of all parties involved; • Non-consensual streaming or distribution of images, photography, video, or an audio recording of sexual activity or nudity without the knowledge and consent of all parties involved; • Prostituting another individual; • Exposing one’s genitals in non-consensual circumstances; • Knowingly exposing another individual to a sexually transmitted disease or virus without that individual’s knowledge; and • Inducing incapacitation for the purpose of making another person vulnerable to non- consensual sexual activity. Physical Violence A purposeful action intended to hurt another person. Examples include, but are not limited to, kicking, punching, hitting with, or throwing an object, or biting. When these acts occur in the context of relationship violence or when the behavior is perpetrated on the basis of sex, gender, or sexual orientation, the conduct will be resolved under the Title IX Policy. Stalking Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person under circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to fear for her, his, or others’ safety or to suffer substantial emotional distress. Stalking may include physical conduct, traditional forms of communication such as letter-writing and phone calls, and may also include cyber-stalking, a particular form of stalking in which electronic media such as the internet, social networks, blogs, cell phones, texts, or other similar devices or forms of contact are used. All allegations of stalking are covered by the Title IX Policy regardless of whether the stalking is sexual or gender- based.
