“Ouch, it leaked!”: thinking over gender, sexuality, violence and the internet in “revenge porn” debates

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on some aspects of the discussions about “revenge pornography” (a non-consensual disclosure, usually online, of intimate content containing nudity and/or sex), a category that has been mobilized by feminist activists, the media and in legislative initiatives brought to the National Congress. In general, the term is used in the sense of giving crime status to situations that are presented, roughly, as a new and technological facet of violence against women, especially domestic violence, which urges political confrontations and solutions , as well as stringent legal provisions.