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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alexandra Topping

Online forums being used to trade explicit images of local women, says charity

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A ‘revenge porn’ charity has warned of the challenges in removing non-consensually shared images from certain online spaces. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

An underground network of men are using peer-to-peer internet message boards to order, share and trade explicit images of local women, according to the UK’s leading “revenge porn” charity.

In a development that has echoes of the forums used to organise the drugging and rape of Gisèle Pelicot in France, the Revenge Porn Helpline said that “systematic deep-seated misogyny” was behind a dark trade in images in the UK.

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