'Revenge porn' is a victim-blaming term, time to change it
'The images he took were embarrassing — me bent over a sink with all my rolls of fat — they were intended to humiliate me. And the word revenge implies I did something wrong. I didn’t'
“I got out of the shower one night and was standing naked, brushing my teeth over the sink and I heard the camera sound on his phone. I turned around and he was holding his phone up as if taking a pic of me.”
I’m talking to a survivor of image-based sexual abuse, who identifies herself as Lady J. She prefers to remain anonymous as the perpetrator of her abuse is currently awaiting trial for a firearms charge. In July, the same man who threatened her with the distribution of her images and who filmed her without consent was released after serving 4.5 months of a 9-month sentence.
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