One of the biggest scandals of 2014 was the leak of several celebrities’ nude photographs to the internet this past September by hackers, who obtained the photographs from the celebrities’ iClouds. The media was bursting with news about the photographs and statements from female celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton.
However, celebrities are not the only victims of these kinds of violations; they happen to women everywhere, all the time. Spurned ex-lovers can easily and anonymously post nude photographs and videos acquired while in an intimate relationship with another to the Internet on a variety of sites created just for that purpose. The practice is known as “revenge porn,” and it has been a highly relevant topic among legislators, criminal law practitioners, and feminist advocates following the recent scandal.
