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"Disclosure" (Crichton, 1994), a fictional account of a male worker's experiences of workplace sexual harassment perpetrated by a woman line manager, has attracted much feminist criticism. Brant and Too, for example, in the introduction to a collection of articles rethinking sexual harassment, say that while this plot might be defended as a liberal desire to be fair in acknowledging that individuals of either sex may harass, Disclosure "pretends that men and women operate on a terrain which is neutral rather than one contoured by inequalities" (Brant & Too, 14). There is indeed a clear scope for an admission that men may be sexually harassed to be deployed to wrongly reconceptualise sexual harassment as a gender-neutral problem spawned by sexual interest rather than male power over women. This was a characteristic of 1980s press coverage of workplace sexual harassment. Wise and Stanley report that after the press identified the "office Romeo" (the over-sexed man engaging in normal male responses to a sexual situation) they also unearthed the "office Juliet" (a mature woman, experienced in sexual goings-on and with an eye for shy, nervous and sexually inexperienced males).
Nevertheless, male sexual harassment victims have not remained completely absent from feminist research; gay men have been acknowledged as sexual harassment victims. Epstein has made a significant contribution to the sexual harassment debate by analyzing hetero/sexist harassment and the enforcement of heterosexuality. Epstein's gay male interviewees spoke of being harassed by men because of their sexuality, of harassing other men through a presumption of their gay sexuality as well as harassing women to avoid accusations of homosexuality.
Epstein's research does not address whether or not heterosexual men or heterosexual women may sexually harass heterosexual men. Morgan briefly reflects upon his own personal experiences of harassment perpetrated by men (e.
