to protect her identity. i stopped socialising, i stopped going out of the house. i was in and out of psychiatric units. i was just always self harming. suicidal attempts. because it is coming to a point where i can t bear life any more. the law currently offers limited legal protection to any women whose intimate images are leaked on the internet. at the moment, it is only a criminal offence to trade an image on one of these websites if you are doing it directly to cause distress to a victim. the problem is, the law only focuses on the kind of malicious ex partner sharing an image, the kind of revenge porn, and this only covers a small number of cases of intimate image abuse. our investigation found that explicit images of at least 150 different women were shared in this reddit group, as well as thousands of non consensual images and videos.