ABSTRACT
The authors have shown how posters worked up descriptions, provided accounts and blamed their ex-partner, while minimising others undermining their claims: that is, managing their 'stake' in revenge seeking in order to position themselves as the victim, and their ex-partner as the perpetrator. Their analysis showed similarities with how heterosexual men and women, and gay and lesbian posters drew on negative social and moralistic discourses related to gender and sexuality, invoking social norms and discourses about personal hygiene, deceitfulness, notions of appropriate relationship conduct, parenthood and responsibilities, sexual objectification, sexual desires, prostitution, violence and criminality. Within these broad contexts of ambiguity and transgression, violation/intimacy, online/offline, public/private, local/transnational, revenge porn can be seen largely, though not exclusively, as an example of men's gendered power practices in their engagement with technological patriarchies. The co-production of masculinity and technology has been studied in many locales and forms, for example, men's gendered engagement with tinkering, craftsmanship, technical skill and simply fascination with technologies.
