Revenge Porn Finally an Official Crime! (UK)

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!!

The Disposal of Horses – Another example of our disrespect on this planet.

It upsets me that as a species we have a total lack of respect for nature. – When Horses become unfit for our superficial  use we disgard them….They are beautiful, intelligent creatures.

I had  a revelation while watching a medi-eveil  battle film. – Horses have no idea that they are in a film. They are forced to charge at other horses and are expected to fall over. They must be so traumatised. I know that these horses will be trained to fall over by cognitive behavioural techniques – Ie they are rewarded for good behaviour (in this case the stunts for a film). It still must be pretty traumatising for the horse.

Horses owned by the police as a form of riot control also experience trauma…only this is worse because although it makes no difference to the horse if its in a film or in an actual dangerous situation. We as people know that we are putting these horses in a dangerous situation. Its not fair that they should be involved in the quarrelling of humans.

These horses then either get re-homed to a centre where they are given therapy…or they are put down because they are unsuitable to re-home.  Horses are incredibly sensitive creatures, they can show signs of stress and trauma through emotional triggers.

I find it brutal and disgusting that race horses are put down when they are old, there might not be anything particularly wrong with the horse but they deemed unsuitable for the track. Even carriage horses after a while are taken away not because they are too old but because they need to look pristine especially if they are for the Queen of England. We want horses in their prime and when they are unfit we abandon them.

Although this example is pretty old in the 1981 film Anna Karenina a horse was tripped with a wire, which is very cruel. Nowadays if a horse is expected to fall whilst running, a hole will be dug in the earth and there will be a soft cushioning under the top layer of earth so that the horse won’t be harmed. Although this is safer I still don’t feel its humane.

More recently in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the rings trilogy Viggo Mortensson who played Aragon, spent a lot of time behind the scenes with his two horses and formed a close bonds. It is noted that he was very dedicated to his role in lord of the rings, he slept in a tent in the wild and hunted his own food. He did lots of research for his role! After the films were wrapped he bought both of them, he loved them so much! Apparently non of the horses in Lord of the rings were harmed. For large battle scenes the horses were CGI.

This evening I was watching Dawn of the planets of the apes in which the apes, and horses featured with in this film are CGI. Normally when I watch a film with CGI I discredit it because I have always thought from an aesthetic point of view it looks ridiculous and film producers could spend less money by hiring real animals than spending the money on CGI software. But after my horsey epiphany I’m quiet glad of it. Especially in a film that is as violent as this. 

Although I have mentioned some examples here where the actors have been dedicated enough to their horses to buy them (out of love and concern for their welfare.) And other films avoid traumatising real horses by using CGI. Not every filmmaker will have these ideas and not every actor will make a bond with their horse and keep it afterwards. Most of the time we dispose of them when they are no longer of any use to us. This kills me. It is disrespectful…there are some things that make me very ashamed to be human.

We are greedy, we use and we take until their is nothing left. We panic and then think of more ways to be greedy and take more. We have no respect. We harm animals who are so much closer to nature, sensitive beautiful animals. When really….we are the animals.

We are barbaric.