Letters to the Editor: Bodily integrity and the right to say no

Columnist 'misses the point' over the sharing of intimate images

While I may be on a completely different wavelength to the Irish Examiner’s Weekend columnist Louise O’Neill regarding the sharing of intimate images between couples, I thought some comments in her column of November 28 were both irresponsible and lacking in balance.

Having outlined a number violations of trust through sharing of images, she writes: “Telling women they shouldn’t send nudes if they don’t want to be violated in this way is akin to telling us that if we don’t want to get raped, we shouldn’t go out at night and we shouldn’t wear short skirts and we shouldn’t drink and we shouldn’t walk home alone and we shouldn’t and we shouldn’t and we shouldn’t…”