ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors focus on how gay and lesbian posters accounted for posting explicit images of ex-partners. They further coded the texts, producing the following loosely classified emergent discourses: sexual promiscuity, warnings and risky sex, and sexual control and sexuality. Unsurprisingly, all posters regardless of gender and sexuality constructed their acts as a legitimate form of interpersonal revenge, and in doing so, the posters positioned themselves as the victims. Gay and lesbian accounts showed also that many of the alleged misdemeanours are linked, even tied to, and invested in, notions of appropriate gender and sexual interactions from masculine and feminine perspectives, for example, gender violences, genital size, sexual performance, intimate relationship control, honesty, sensuality and sexual appearance. Many posters framed their actions for the benefit of others through warnings about unsafe sexual practices, hygiene, sexual promiscuity and so on.
