After a relationship is over, all private messages and photos should ideally be deleted, irrespective of whether it is because of respect or resentment. Moving on should be the top priority. This, however, is a fever dream for most people these days. Although they might delete all pictures, their partners don’t. The next thing they know, intimate photos of them are floating around the internet.
The state of Guwahati recorded the rise of such cases, known as ‘revenge porn,’ back in 2018.
Sometimes the pictures are not used to take revenge after the relationship has ended. Instead, it is used to blackmail or humiliate the person when they are still in a relationship. Sometimes, people pretend to get into relationships are for the sole purpose of uploading sexually explicit pictures. In such a context, the term ‘revenge porn’ may be misleading.
No one knows where the ‘revenge porn’ term originally came from. We do, however, know that women are mostly victims of revenge porn. At times, normal photographs and videos freely available on the internet are morphed, using state-of-the-art technology, to look like sexually explicit pictures. They are then shared on social media to harass, humiliate and degrade the victims.
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