And thirdly, Boccaccio's personal beliefs must have played an important role in the construction of sex within the tales. ... In The Decameron, Boccaccio places us in a time when the plague was running rampant within the medieval realm. ... In the tenth story of the fifth day it is said, " a woman is always ready for a man, but not vice-versa. What's more one woman could exhaust many men, whereas many men can't exhaust one woman (432-435)." ...

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For the last twenty years or so, the issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention especially since the inception of the feminist movement and the glaring examples of the Impeachment of President Clinton, the Senate's confirmation hearings for Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, among others, has heightened nearly everyone's interest in the topic (Mcafee1). Despite, widespread publicity about the perils of sexual harassment, surveys demonstrates that many businesses operating in the United States have yet to address the problem a...

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