If someone is your co-worker and you flirt with them and engage in a voluntary affair with them, is it sexual harassment? What about when you are their boss, a

If someone is your co-worker and you flirt with them and engage in a voluntary affair with them, is it sexual harassment? What about when you are their boss, and in a position to fire them or affect their career if they don't engage or flirt back? One of these can definitely be interpreted as sexual harassment (the situation where the person feels they have to accept the proposition or fear losing their job). On the other hand, the situation where the two co-workers are on equal footing would only be considered sexual harassment if the flirting is unwelcome and continues even after it has been made clear that it is unwelcome. The key difference is the fact that it is impossible to retrospectively prove or disprove whether or not the relationship was actually consensual, when one person is in a superior position and can making hiring/firing decisions or affect the other person's career. Or at least that's my interpretation of the point that I believe Scoble was making. He wasn't in a hiring/firing position or superior position to affect the careers any of the women when they engaged in the illicit behavior with him. It was consensual behavior between peers, and as such, does not automatically count as sexual harassment (even if he was being an unethical slimeball and cheating on his wife).