revenge porn

English

Noun

revenge porn (uncountable)

1. (informal) Sexually explicit media of a person distributed online without the consent of the pictured individual, typically by a former partner or hacker, either from genuine video or by deepfake, and often with the intent to humiliate the subject and damage his/her reputation.

   Hypernym: cybercrime

   • 2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     France has threatened to fine Facebook for sharing data between its various apps. Almost every day you get hammered for not properly policing the content, including extremists’ videos, revenge porn and fake news, that appears on your platforms.

   • 2021 November 16, Amanda Holpuch, “Maryland Mayor Is Charged in ‘Revenge Porn’ Case”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The charges against Mr. Bradshaw were the latest in a series of high-profile revenge porn cases in recent years, and groups that support survivors of sexual violence say there has been an increase in reports of revenge porn and other forms of online sexual harassment during the coronavirus pandemic.

Translations

explicit media distributed as revenge

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: порно за отмъщение n (porno za otmǎštenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色情復仇／色情复仇 (sèqíng fùchóu)

• Danish: hævnporno c
• Dutch: wraakporno (nl) f
• Finnish: kostoporno (fi)
• French: pornovengeance (fr) f, revenge porn (fr) m
• German: Racheporno m
• Greek: εκδικητική πορνογραφία (el) f (ekdikitikí pornografía)
• Hebrew: פורנו נקמה m or f (pórno nekamá)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: pornovendetta f
• Japanese: リベンジポルノ (ribenji poruno), 復讐ポルノ (ふくしゅうポルノ, fukushū poruno)
• Korean: 리벤지 포르노 (ribenji poreuno)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hevnporno m

  Nynorsk: hemnporno m

• Polish: not used in Polish
• Portuguese: pornografia de vingança f
• Russian: порноме́сть (ru) f (pornoméstʹ)
• Spanish: pornovenganza f, porno vengativo m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: hämndporr (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: intikam pornosu
• Vietnamese: khiêu dâm trả thù
• Welsh: pornograffi dial m
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• sextortion

Further reading

• revenge porn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia