‘The sexual objectification of women involves them being viewed primarily as an object of male sexual desire, rather than as a whole person’. On this topic a close friend of mine wrote the following: “While I consider myself attractive, I don’t want to feel that I am contributing to my own sexual objectification – no matter what I may communicate to men or women by how I dress, my makeup, what jewelry I have in my nose, nipples, labia and how I trim my pubic area.  While I am an executive assistant – I also consider myself an artist. My body is my canvas. I have a right to freedom of expression.  If I want men and women to appreciate my art, that doesn’t mean I want to have them interpret anything I do as sexual – it is art. If I don’t wear underwear and men or women can see that based on how I display myself – they are not to see that as anything other than art. If I on occasion create a sexual atmosphere in the office, it is only art and any male or female co-workers’ reaction to that is sexual harassment which I feel obligated to report to the human resources department in order to protect other Xe/Xem who also want to share that they are ‘whole people’.