Responses

There are a variety of motivations for revenge porn, such as for commercial profit, increasing peer status, revenge, entertainment, opportunity, empowerment, and so on. Germany and Japan have now made revenge porn a criminal offence. In other countries, the legal frameworks for prosecuting revenge porn perpetrators are either non-existent, or cultural aspects make it difficult to secure convictions. In addition to, and indeed overlapping with, legal and governmental responses, there are various further responses against revenge porn to consider. Some of these are primarily technological, others focus more on support structures, and some are more publicly political. Technological responses tend to be more poster/producer-orientated, and more focused on online processes; support responses tend to focus more on the victim/postee, both online and offline; the more overt political responses are both postee/consumer-orientated and poster/producer-orientated, with both online and offline activity.