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Meaning of acoso sexual

acoso sexual: "Sexual harassment". Practice exercised in personal relationships consisting of humiliating and disqualifying treatment towards a person, with the aim of destabilizing him psychologically and whose objective is to obtain a forced sexual relationship without voluntary consent. Sexual harassment can be exercised by a man against a woman or from a woman to a man, or between people of the same sex.; It would be harassment ("harassment, harassment") of a sexual nature ("relating to sex as a practice").; 2 . It is understood as a form of gender-based violence, which consists of the abusive exercise of power and leads to a state of defenselessness and risk for the victim, regardless of whether it is carried out in one or more events.