Is it illegal to send harassing text messages?

Sending harassing text messages is illegal. If you only engage in sexual harassment online without taking specific actions, it does not constitute a crime, but it is an illegal act, and you will be detained for less than five days or fined less than 500 yuan.

What are the main forms of sexual harassment?

1. Oral way: tease each other with the following language and tell each other about personal sexual experiences, pornographic jokes or pornographic literature;

2. Action mode: intentionally touching, bumping and kissing the other person's face, breasts, legs, buttocks, genitals and other sexually sensitive parts;

3. Setting the environment: arranging obscene pictures and advertisements around the workplace to embarrass each other.

Sexual harassment in a broad sense is not limited to the opposite sex, and the object is not only women; Same sex can also constitute sexual harassment.

Legal basis: Article 42 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law.

One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.