Is touching co-workers OK?

[DrDeth]

@SmartAleq

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Look, if I don’t want to be touched by you it doesn’t matter a bit to me what you “meant.” I’m fucking used to men getting offended when I tell them to keep their hands to themselves because they “only meant to be nice” or think I’m being too sensitive. I don’t care what you think or what you intended or what you “meant” I just want you to keep your hands to yourself and NOT TOUCH ME.

DON’T TOUCH PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION. Why is this so hard to understand? Keep your hands to yourself. Don’t touch. A person’s body belongs to them, not to you and you have no inherent right to touch them.

Seriously, what if you have a male friend whose idea of friendly contact is to reach down and touch the head of your penis through your pants? Every time you run into this guy he touches your penis. Does it fucking MATTER that he doesn’t “mean” it in a sexual way? Does it matter that he just “means” to be friendly? Does it matter that you don’t want your fucking penis touched without your permission or are you just public property, with your penis belonging to every rando who passes? Does that seem comfortable or right to you?
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Can you add “dont talk to me”? How about “dont make eye contact with me”? I am sorry if you have haphephobia, but that’s not normal. But it’s Ok to ask people to not touch you.
And adding in unwanted touching of genitals is going way off the deep end. :rolleyes:

Sexual touching is not appropriate in the workplace.