According to Salidumay, a Philippine-based non-profit organization that offers legal services, sexual harassment has two main elements:

  • The conduct committed must be of a sexual nature. Harassment was committed in reference to the sex of the person being harassed or using the biological difference between man and woman or one's gender identity and sexual orientation as a cause for humiliation or degradation.

  • The sexual conduct or attention is unwanted. The victim or survivor of harassment did not invite the attention nor did she or he want the act to continue. The harassment then was imposed and not sought for.
Furthermore, as EqualRights.org explains, these acts can happen in various forms: (1) verbal or written - e.g., unwelcome green jokes, asking sexual favors, gossiping about a person's sexual or personal life, etc.; (2) physical - e.g., assault and inappropriate physical contact; (3) nonverbal - e.g., stalking, staring or making facial expressions of a sexual nature and stalking; and (4) visual - e.g., lewd offline and online images, including those sent via emails.