Exposed Ladies Seek Revenge on ‘Revenge Porn’ Site

‘Revenge porn’ is the practice of disgruntled and bereft ex-boyfriends uploading intimate pictures of their recent rejecters on niche websites for the titillation of hairy-palmed basement-dwellers and the overly-curious. Or so I’m told.*

A group of women who have been victims of this practice have decided to launch a class-action law suit against one of these websites.

The debate here is relatively straightforward – don’t write anything down that you wouldn’t want your mother to read; don’t text pictures to your boyfriend of yourself squatting over a cucumber if you can’t accept the fact that, one way or another, it will eventually end up on the internet. It will. On the other hand, the site in question, texxxan.com, posted pictures of some of these heart-breaking Texan belles along with their full names and zip codes. That’s obviously not cool and clearly shouldn’t be allowed.

Anyway, in true internet fashion, both sides pushed their arguments to the limits of sanity; while the sweaty-backed middlemen were content just to sit back and enjoy the view…

* I only use these sites because I don’t understand how to back up my photos to iCloud.

New York Daily News

Revenge porn? Women sue website charging X-rated pics of them were uploaded on site and rated without their knowledge

More than two dozen women have joined a class-action lawsuit against Texxxan.com saying intimate photos of them were uploaded by slimy ex-beaus.

Carol Kuruvilla / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

SpiderHeMan13 hours ago

What are these girls crying about? There is nothing on this website that they are not flaunting in the street every day to the same amount of traffic. You wanna get sued? Try getting these girls to actually WEAR some clothes for a change.

Uh oh, the ‘asking for it’ argument rears its head…

Spewitup, 21 hours ago

Look at these chicks, all painted up and pretty for the camera. What sort of girls send nude pictures to guys after only a few months? This sort…(I’d be surprised if they haven’t put pictures up on the net themselves) oh, but I guess that’s not the point is it.

Sort of like girls who wear their boobs out and complain about old men looking. You’re an idiot if you trust a guy who “coaxes” you into sending photos, perhaps you didn’t need much coaxing.

And there it is again. Sounds stupid at the best of times, but in this context, it’s totally idiotic.

Rush Lemming, 5 hours ago

 And we hear from the caveman contingency. Dope.

This summer, from the producers of the Bourne Supremacy… The Caveman Contingency. Dope.

bk1121122 hours ago

 So you send an intimate pic to a significant other and it’s fair game for the world? That’s weak. The ladies had bad judgment in picking jerks for the role.

But the gentlemen had good judgement in jerking pics! Zing! AHAHAHAHA!

Coffeetweaker, 22 hours ago

 This web-site is nothing more than a modern scarlet letter, attempting to control women by shaming them for their bodies. I will ever give naked pics to anyone ever again.

[sigh]

The misogyny here is palpable. The commenters here certainly don’t know these women personally but appear to be projecting their cuckolded rage onto them. In my opinion this situation should be included under “hate crime” legislation if it isn’t already, as it involves an aggressor hatefully trying to humiliate someone based on their biological gender. Additionally, it may incite violence against the victims. If someone is considered a “slut,” then they are no longer a “nice girl” and lose “male-protection.” Predators are then socially free to do whatever they want to them, as they obviously “asked for it.” Dead prostitute jokes have a grain of truth to them (nobody cares). The aggressors are essentially stripping these women of their humanity and indirectly endangering them. Our society disgusts me.

Hey, have you heard the one about the dead prostitute? No… neither have I.

Jerk Face, 1 day ago

 www.texxxan.com you say? Damn being on my work computer…This is great publicity for that site, and I’ll be sure to check it out later….silly girls

Unfortunate username…

TheChris, 2 days ago

Maybe it’s just nit-picking – but – pictures are not porn….and they’re not x-rated unless there’s somebody else in the picture…..

You can see a cat in the background of one of them – does that count?

Not a member yet, 2 days ago

 32years old…Your more dumb then the girls.

Ooof!

Noo Yoka, 2 days ago

 Each of the victims needs to visit a copyright lawyer and copyright there images. They can charge 1 million each for each “authorized view” then send their ex’s an invoice for the viewings. Once the bill collectors get involved, the boyfriends will commit suicide.

Idiotic on multiple levels.

MarcDonato, 2 days ago

 See? That’s why you have to make sure that you have an Ace in the hole, as they say….my wife’ll NEVER put anything of me up on the web because I have a few of HER tucked away in a secret safety deposit box! Gotta cover your bases!

That’s… that’s something.

The Guardian

‘Revenge porn’ is about degrading women sexually and professionally

What does it say about society that websites where angry men shame their ex-lovers are thriving?

- Jill Filipovic, The Guardian

OlympicSquashNow, 29 January 2013 4:49pm

it sounds like an interesting idea in some cases – revenge comes in many forms after all, often best served cold. Women also have very nasty ways of exacting revenge

I feel this person may have interests beyond squash.

GreenLake, 28 January 2013 10:59pm

I don’t know if Brett Favre or Anthony Weiner sending images of their genetalia counts as “sexting” or sexual harassment, but it certainly turned out to be a problem for them.

Anthony… what?

pimpmasterkdogg, 28 January 2013 10:57pm

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Don’t give your kids a name that is easy to Google, and if someone you know in real life is harassing you over the internet, get the police involved.

That’s a good point – I’ll name my first-born Justin Bieber.

djjdd, 28 January 2013 11:03pm

periods (menstruation for non-UK persons), painful and lethal childbirth, the minute we garner the energy and coldness to do it to them, it will cease to exist…

What.

JustJusty, 29 January 2013 12:28am

 Why we are not protecting children? why we don’t care that first ‘sexy’ images 10& 11 year old girls see are hard core porn? this is overwhelming how easy is free access to pornography! Is it really what we want for the children?

Interesting that someone’s mind instantly leaps from ex-girlfriend revenge porn to images of 10- and 11-year-olds.

ConorSean, 29 January 2013 12:53am

Not exactly scientific but I found this after at the top of the list after one google search:

exboyfriend-pictures.com

It comes with the instructions:

Is your ex-bloke LAZY, USELESS or just a complete BASTARD?
Of course you want TO GET EVEN and get one up on him.
Register with us by CLICKING HERE.
Upload his photo or video in any format, tell us his name, just add a few words to SLAG him off and we’ll get him seen acrooss the whole internet YES YES YES
So don’t delay, get your own back, and give us girls something to laugh at!

Nice.

tankerton, 29 January 2013 4:29pm

Porn is out of control in the UK. Why are all those channels available on Freeview, when so many children have TVs and mobile phones?

It was a much healthier situation in the 70s and 80s, where you were rightly made to feel a bit guilty and dirty if you wanted porn.

Much healthier.

bobbymac1956, 29 January 2013 4:36pm

The rise of internet porn has gone hand in hand with the demise of home shopping catalogues and Elastoplast coloured foundation garments modelled by peoples aunties .Ah simpler times.

Simpler times, good times.