Travis White alleges he was often hit on by his co-workers when he worked at the museum as a retail manager, with one even asking if he had a condom so they could ‘get started’
A former employee at a sex museum claims his randy colleague showed him an image of her genitals as part of a campaign of sexual harassment.
Travis White alleges he was propositioned by product manager Kit Richardson when he worked at The Museum of Sex in New York City. He says content creator Kit, who goes by the name Coquette Wonkette, left her adult subscription page open on his computer.
And he claimed another co-worker asked him to “suck c**k” and left a number of sex toys on his desk in a lawsuit filed against the museum in the US.
Travis was hired as a retail manager at the Manhattan museum in November 2022 until he was fired last April. In a lawsuit he has since filed, he claims Richardson heckled him for objecting to seeing her vagina.
He also alleges that she asked him “are you into big girls?” before rubbing his lower back. In addition, she apparently told him: “P***y doesn’t bite. Did you bring a condom? Let’s get started”.
Event manager Michael Delauretis allegedly pulled up his shirt while they were in a lift together, stared White “directly in the eye” and said, “Anal sex would loosen you right up. You really need some”.
The lawsuit also claims Delauretis told him to “wear pants that show off your d**k print so that you can get bigger tips at the bar”.
On top of this, he allegedly left an oversized sex toy and a penis-shaped balloon on White’s desk until his supervisor questioned why he “always had dildos” on his desk.
White’s boss at the time, Edward Rogers, allegedly dismissed his complaints, saying: “If you can’t get along with other members of the team who have been with the museum far before you arrived, then you won’t be working here for long.”
Richardson is said to have slammed him as “a little b*tch ch boy” when she found out he had spoken to his boss. The final straw came when White asked for three month paternity leave, with Rogers allegedly saying: “That’s too long. Take a week off instead and then get back to business. I don’t respect men who take off for paternity leave.”
White’s lawyer is seeking unspecified damages and declined to comment on the case, reports the New York Post.
While David Cohen, a lawyer for the museum, said the museum takes harassment complaints “seriously” and added: “The Museum of Sex categorically denies the allegations of harassment and discrimination contained in the complaint.”
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