【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 experiences of my is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration and sleepless numbera great number of sleepless nights that i am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone but my close declined the invitation to go out socially with him and explained to him that i thought it would jeopardize what at the time i considered to be a very good working had a normal social life with other men outside of the believed then, as now, that having a social relationship with a person who was supervising my work would be was very unfortable with the idea and told him thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social , to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several pressed me to justify my reasons for saying no to incidents took place in his office or were in the form of private conversations which would not have been overheard by anyone working relationship became even more strained when judge thomas began to use work situations to discuss these occasions, he would call me into his office for reports on education issues and projects, or he might suggest that, because of the time pressures of his schedule, we go to lunch to a government a brief discussion of work, he would turn the conversation to a discussion of sexual conversations were very spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex several occasions, thomas told me graphically of his own sexual i was extremely unfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, i told him that i did not want to talk about these would also try to change the subject to education matters or to nonsexual personal matters such as his background or his efforts to change the subject were rarely the period of these conversations, he also from time to time asked me for social reaction to these conversations was to avoid them by eliminating opportunities for us to engage in extended was difficult because at the time i was his only assistant at the office of educationor office for civil the latter part of my time at the department of education, the social pressures and any conversation of his offensive behavior began both to believe and hope that our working relationship could be a proper, cordial, and professional judge thomas was made chair of the eeoc, i needed to face the question of whether to go with was asked to do so, and i work itself was interesting, and at that time it appeared that the sexual overtures which had so troubled me had also faced the realistic fact that i had no alternative i might have gone back to private practice, perhaps in my old firm or at another, i was dedicated to civil rights work, and my first choice was to be in that , the department of education itself was a dubious reagan was seeking to abolish the entire my first months at the eeoc, where i continued to be an assistant to judge thomas, there were no sexual conversations or , during the fall and winter of