ABSTRACT

This chapter describes some comments on what could be done to reduce the possibilities for revenge pornography. It considers the current legislative situation more specifically, with a focus on the United Kingdom, and weaknesses in legislation, the need for more action and interaction between governmental, not-for-profit, legislators, commercial actors, as well as victims and perpetrators. This includes support programmes for victims, punishment of crimes and re-education programmes for perpetrators, and gender and sexualities educational programmes, in schools, colleges and universities, workplaces and elsewhere, even if some of these might not be immediately feasible. The chapter focuses on the politics of acting against revenge pornography in the changing and future fleshly/virtual cyberworlds. Revenge porn, non-consensual pornography and online non-consensual pornography for the purposes of revenge are part and parcel of the gender-sexual-violation visual culture that, for many people and in many parts of the world, surrounds and permeates persons and social relations.