Revenge Porn And The Gay Community
A new report that has come out is saying that the gay and bi communities are more likely to be victims of revenge porn.
The study carried out by the Data & Society Research Institute and the Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR) offers the first national statistics on the prevalence of nonconsensual pornography.
They report that 4 percent of U.S. Internet users – or roughly 10.4 million people – have been threatened with or experienced the posting of explicit images without their consent.
Other findings of the report include:
Around 3 percent of respondents have had someone threaten to post nude or nearly nude photos or videos of them online
Two percent have had someone post an explicit photo or video of them online without their permission
Fifteen percent of LGB people said that someone had threatened to post an explicit image online
Seven percent of LGB people had such an image posted online.
While women are more likely to be threatened with nonconsensual pornography, men and women were equally likely to have photos or videos of themselves actually posted online
No other organization has researched this data so this is the first national report. Revenge porn can have a devastating impact on victims so we need to know how common this is and who is affected.
Have you ever been a victim of revenge porn?
