ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at revenge porn as pornography, interpersonal revenge, violence and abuse, information and computer technologies (ICTs), publicisations and gender-sexual practices. The ability to privately view and make porn both at home and in public, and the relative anonymity of doing so afforded by new technological developments has led to an explosion of online pornography. Revenge porn can be understood as form of gendered violence and abuse that ranges across femicide, rape, stalking and non-contact harassment. While revenge porn may be the sharing of explicit images of another via cell phones within a specific locality or community, it is predominantly facilitated by ICTs accessing various online platforms. Revenge porn can be seen as gender, gendered, sexual, gender-sexual practices. In these perspectives, revenge porn may be interpreted as structured action, resulting from the gender-sexual social order and social structures, sometimes called patriarchy, and/or as a way of doing gender, doing sexuality or doing gender/sexuality performatively.
