Introduction: The aim of this work was to analyse, from a qualitative point of view, the terms used by a sample of male and female clerks to describe their experience of sexual harassment victimization by clients.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative explorative study. Semi-structured interviews were administered to clerks who self-declared victims of sexual harassment in workplace by clients. Fifteen men (aged 30-59 years, M= 38.2 years) and 15 women (aged 24-50 years, M= 37.8 years) were interviewed. They worked in supermarkets (n= 18), clothing stores (n= 4), shoe stores (n= 3), bookstores (n= 1), e-cigarette stores (n= 1), jewellery stores (n= 1), coffee pod stores (n= 1), tobacco stores (n= 1) and mobile accessories stores (n= 1). The text from interviews was analyzed using Alceste 6.0.

Results: As expected, men were more likely than women to describe the insults concerning the sexual sphere as an experience of sexual harassment. At the same time, the experience of victimization described by women are related to terms about approaches to have a sexual relationship.