YES! OH GOD YES!
Its finally a punishable crime!!!
Definition of revenge porn given by the Ministry of Justice : “Photographs or films which show people engaged in sexual activity or depicted in a sexual way or with their genitals exposed, where what is shown would not usually be seen in public”
Finally this awful form of abuse is now a convicted crime in our country . This new law was passed yesterday the 13th of November 2014.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling. “We want those who fall victim to this type of disgusting behaviour to know that we are on their side,”
Lets face it most of us in this day and age have sent nude photographs to our partners with complete in complete confidence. It has been very unsettling to know recently that Jennifer Lawrence’s nude photos got leaked by internet trolls. These weren’t people that she had sent her photos to these were people who had hacked into her cloud system and publicised them without her permission. This could happen to any of us. What makes this worse is that it was a bunch of misogynistic pigs who did this deliberately to challenge her status as a feminist woman and to put her in her place. (If you would like to see more on this matter check out my other article on Keira Knightly posting her own nudes to challenge this corruption)
In a more relatable example for the general public –What an awful thing to publicise intimate photographs of your ex partner , that they have sent to you in confidence. This behaviour is both shameful and disgusting. Thomas Samuel from Bristol, uploaded naked images of his ex-wife from when they were together, he uploaded them to a spoof Facebook page. He has now been suspended for 6 months in prison.
The victim in question Folami Prehaye has now set up a website to help other victims of revenge porn and other related online crime incidents. I feel this is very noble she spoke out – “It has literally ruined my life, in the sense that the pictures are still out there and still being seen….The worst thing for me is I can’t stop people viewing them – you have no control….Your personal, intimate stuff has gone public. To know they are being view on one porn site alone about 48,000 times it just awful.”
“This type of behaviour can be extremely distressing for its victims causing them significant psychological harm,” said Adam Pemberton, assistant chief executive for charity Victim Support.
It is so damaging to publicly post naked pictures on to your Facebook page, Not only emotionally scarring but it destroys your reputation too. Facebook now owns every image you post, even if deleted they still store it in their archive so that if big businesses or the government want to look you up they can trace everything. And how are they to know you got fraped by an ex partner? They WILL judge you for what you post. Some victims have found it very difficult to have their pictures removed if its on a site other than Facebook. Sometimes it makes matters worse because in the victims plea for help more attention is circulated towards the image. Miss Prehaye says “I have tried to remove them and it’s a lot harder than you think. You have to contact each webmaster one by one”.
This truly is an awful crime and I find it sickening that if you visit your regular porn site there will be adds for websites that encourage you to upload images and videos of your ex girlfriend. Such as Watch my Ex Gf. This might very well be staged for someones sick fetish. They might not actually be real pictuteres and videos that are revenge porn….but even so its condoning it and thats just as bad in my books!
“The fact that there are individuals who are cruelly distributing intimate pictures of their former partners without their consent is almost beyond belief,” Justice Secretary Mr Grayling continues.That is why we will change the law and make it absolutely clear to those who act in this way that they could face prison”
I’m happy to announce that if these images are sent on any social media site as well as text messages the sender will be convicted for their crime!
Mr Grayling – “We are pleased that people who commit these gross violations of privacy will now face prosecution, and victims of revenge porn know they have the full backing of the law.”
I think its about bloody time something has been done about this.
We are taking finally taking steps in the right direction!!
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