According to Article 7 of the Internal Regulation for the Prevention and Sanction of Sexual Harassment at the University, without excluding other possible cases, the following behaviors can constitute sexual harassment:

1. An implicit or explicit promise to the victim of preferential or beneficial treatment regarding their current or future situation in exchange for sexual favors.

2. Threats implicitly or explicitly demanding an unwanted behavior from the victim that affronts or insults their dignity, or exercising pressure or intimidation to receive sexual favors or to meet or go out with the offended person.

3. Use of terms of a sexual or sexist nature (written or verbal), sexual insinuations, sexual propositions, obscene gestures, or the exhibition of sexually explicit images through any medium that result in intolerable, hostile, humiliating, or offensive experiences for the victim. Examples include: written messages of a sexual nature, indecent exposures with sexual and offensive content, obscene jokes, questions, jokes, or catcalls of a sexual nature; conversations with sexual terms, repeated lascivious looks, phone calls of a sexual nature, repeated propositions for dates after rejections, comments about the victim's sexual life, repeatedly showing drawings, graffiti, photos, magazines, or calendars with sexual content; and other acts of a similar nature.

4. Physical proximity, rubbing, touching, or other physical behaviors of a sexual nature that are offensive and unwanted by the victim, such as: brushing against, leaning on, cornering, kissing, hugging, pinching, patting, intentionally blocking the way, and other behaviors of a similar nature.

5. Offensive or hostile treatment due to the rejection of the behaviors listed in the previous sections.

6. Sending emails, messages, or instant written or oral conversations (chat) with sexual insinuations, comments, jokes, or photographs with sexual content.

7. Anonymous calls, messages, or notes with sexual content.

8. Threats or spreading sexual rumors, photographs, or videos of a sexual nature.

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