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Clarification: I meant it would not be wrong without the context of her being a job applicant. That's what I meant by "in and of itself".

That's to address some responses in other threads where people were asking why behavior at Burning Man warrants consequences at the job. The detail that their professional relationship persisted throughout Burning Man until she got a response from her potential employer seems to have eluded some people's eyes.

In the context of b), you know full well that a) was a form of making sexual advances. By itself, it's ambiguous, but the ambiguity is not there in light of what he did later.

In case you missed it, DeVaul has asked the person he interviewed to remove her shirt to let him do a back massage, repeatedly, while she was waiting on the hiring decision.

I have nothing against polyamory (as long as it is not abusive in any way and all participants are on a level playing field) but the fact remains that out of all the "relationship statuses" you could articulate to someone, it's one of the few (?) that can be legitimately interpreted as a proposition, obviously depending on context. In that regard it is fundamentally different from simply telling someone "I am married", which generally implies an exclusive relationship—like it or not, that's the cultural context.