So yet another article is claiming that sleeping with co-workers is all the rage these days, thanks to a 21 percent decline in sexual harassment claims in the past decade. (Though of course this decline won't be much comfort if you're hiding behind the office plant to avoid bumping into a co-worker you "accidentally" boinked.) Back in October, we wrote about how this trend might be kind of a bummer for people who liked to fish off the company pier simply because it was so taboo. Not that lawsuits are sexy, but today's corporate "love contracts" aren't nearly as hot as sneaking a quickie in the supply closet used to be. (Which we know you do. 66 percent of you said yes to a little "business time.") But here's the thing: We get that men would be more open to office nookie now that they no longer fear being told "see you in court." But was this ever what stopped women from dipping their pen in the company inkwell?

(Or are women the inkwell being dipped into?? We guess the phallic phrase tells a story in itself.) It seems to us that it was more the fear of gaining the wrong kind of reputation that stopped them. And so has this changed? We're not so sure. According to the Details article, "Women can benefit from office affairs too." Oh really? Do tell.

Janet (not her real name), a 35-year-old editor in New York, dated two coworkers--one of whom was her superior--while at the same job. 'I became known as the office slut,' she says.

Huh, so far, so...crappy.

Another coworker asked her out, and after she turned him down repeatedly, he said, 'Come on, you've fucked everyone else in the office.' But instead of reporting him to HR, she used the slut tag to her advantage. 'Freakishly, it may have helped my career,' she says. 'There was all of this curiosity about me and all of these idiots thinking they had a chance.'

Um, if that's women "benefitting" from this new trend, then we'd hate to see what happens when they get screwed over by an office affair. If you really want risk-free workplace nookie, how about a little self-love on the clock instead? Just be sure to choose a whisper-quiet vibrator lest you gain a whole other kind of reputation.