The testimony by Anita Hill during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court—regardless of whether the allegations she made were correct—heightened public awareness of a problem of long standing. Comments by the public during the hearings and the kind of questioning Professor Hill received revealed society's need for a better understanding of the nature of harassment and for sensitivity to the problem.
Gains in women's equality are still viewed in some quarters as an encroachment on traditionally male territory. Some men try to protect what they perceive to be their turf through domination and exploitation. Other harassment is the result of society's preoccupation with sex.
Christian Science knocks the pins out from under the assumption that man is essentially a sexual being, a biological organism with inescapable physiological and psychological drives. This Science supports a higher view, a Biblical view of man as God actually created him—spiritual, Godlike, noble, whole, and complete. According to the first chapter of the Bible, God has given man the dominion and nobility that come from being His own likeness. Gen. 1:26,27
