When intimate pictures end up on the Internet, those affected experience a lot of suffering.
When intimate pictures land on the Internet: The consequences of so-called revenge porn are devastating for young people. Tell those affected.
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Berlin. The luxury hotel Sofitel in Paris. The Brazilian soccer star Neymar (29) is meeting a compatriot, a model, in his suite. What follows is consensual sex – he says. He was drunk and aggressive and eventually got her rapedsays the woman. She filed a complaint in São Paulo.
Neymar’s reaction: he posts intimate photos of the model online. After 24 hours, Facebook removes the images. By then, they have been clicked 50 million times. The authorities consider the rape allegation to be implausible – because of the posting, however, they summon Neymar. Facebook checks 500,000 such cases worldwide – every month.
Rachepornos These are the names of those privately recorded nude photos or sex videos that end up on the internet – mostly to damage the victim’s reputation, to bully or to blackmail them. Mostly women are affected, perpetrators are often ex-partners, but also disappointed admirers or envious acquaintances, some of them without any “revenge” motive.
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Advice centers are assuming an increase, they explain, among other things, with the increase in porn consumption in lockdown by 20 percent – sex sites as a forge for harmful ideas.
Rebecca Baden experienced all the horror. She was only 15 and a student in a Luxembourg village when she met her boyfriend Nude photos surprised. He was not very enthusiastic and feared that the pictures might fall into the wrong hands. And so it happened: Two boys in her class stole their cell phones, one girl posted the photos on a blog. In the school hallway, a classmate said: “The whole school knows your ass now.” Also read:Women fight against sexism in everyday life with chalk
Affected like bathing feel humiliated, to be ashamed. In addition, there is the feeling of having caused the misery for oneself. For her too, the world was falling apart: “At the time I really thought: This is the end of my life, I have to go to another school, I have to move to another country. I can never show myself again, ”said the 29-year-old.
Revenge porn – a criminal offense in Great Britain, an insult in Germany
Lea Römer from the Juuuport advice center supports young people affected. 16 percent have already had experience with pictures or videos that were posted against their will. Bullied with terms like “school bitch”, there is even suicide in individual cases. “The victims are often exposed to terrible insults and receive little support because, from the perspective of outsiders, they are themselves to blame for the situation.”
Wouldn’t it be the best protection not to take nude photos? “This only makes whoever does it guilty again,” says Rebecca Baden. Everyone has that Lawto make such recordings within the legal framework.
But something is happening in awareness: In Great Britain, revenge porn is already its own Criminal offense. There were 3146 reports in 2020, in the previous year there were only 681. In Germany it falls under insult, defamation or violation of the very personal sphere of life. The state justice ministers decided in June tougher penalties for revenge porn, how much exactly is still unclear. There is currently a penalty of up to two years.
What is once on the network actually stays on the network. Rebecca Baden was reminded of this again. A friend from school sent her one of the pictures with the words “Do you remember?” blocked. But she forgave everyone involved: “I don’t want any more negative thoughts. So I was able to finish with it. “
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