At work, people begin to be afraid to communicate with each other, because they do not want to be accused of harassment, said sexologist Kerim Kostoev.
He noted that "the issue of relations with colleagues is very controversial." In his opinion, “the world has recently gone too far on all these harassment and other things,” the NSN reports.
Kostoev himself considers it normal to "support a colleague by touching her back with a hand." He noted that in this "there is absolutely nothing reprehensible, sexual and so on", there is "no background."
“It's natural,” he said.
Kostoev also considers it quite acceptable "to put a hand on a girl's hand during fun and laughter."
He said that “five or seven years ago, he would not even have thought about the fact that this could cause” him “as a man some harm”, but “now, against the background of what is happening in the world,” he is “even a meter not worth it from a female colleague ", tries to stay" away ".
"Because who knows what a modern woman has on her mind at work now?" - he declared.
According to him, "in America now, men, out of harm's way, no longer help women, for example, carry a pack of paper to the printer so that they are not accused of harassment."
Kostoev stressed that "there should be common sense and adequacy in everything."
On Tuesday, the chief editor of MBH Media, Sergei Prostakov, resigned amid accusations of harassment on his part.
Several other sexual harassment and rape in the Russian media have also become known. Thus, journalist Pavel Lobkov confessed to harassment against a young trainee of the Dozhd TV channel Alexander Skrylnikov.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan appealed to RT employees in connection with a sex scandal in the Russian media. She said: "If, God forbid, we are talking about rape, then we will help the injured party with legal support of the criminal case." However, if the case of harassment is not regulated by law, the channel's management will perceive it as a private matter for the participants in the incident.