Update: Is Discussing Bat Fellatio With Colleagues Sexual Harassment?

Bringing up a fruit bat's oral sex habits with a colleague you don't know very well may not be the best idea--but according to an Irish court, it doesn't quite merit the extreme sanctions associated with more flagrant sexual harassment. Back in May, Discoblog brought you news that a biology professor in Ireland was being charged with harassment by a female colleague after he read from and discussed a racy new paper about fruit bat fellatio. The biologist, Dale Evans, was ordered to attend two years of counseling to correct his attitudes and behavior, and was told that he would be monitored for those two years. But Evans claimed that he'd simply thought the paper was hilarious, had shown it to numerous people that day, and had zero intention of causing offense to his colleague, Rossana Salerno Kennedy. Now ScienceInsider gives us the update: