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Goudsmit, Marthe Liljana Rebecca (2017)

Revenge pornography: a conceptual analysis. Undressing a crime of disclosure

Master thesis | Philosophy (MA) (120 EC)

This paper seeks to clarify the concept of revenge pornography. Existing laws concerning revenge pornography are analysed and sorted into four separate categories, after which a definition of (consensual) pornography is set out against definitions of four types of nonconsensual pornography, among which a definition of revenge pornography. This is followed by an analysis of the reasons for the lack of appropriate laws against revenge pornography and considers degrees of privacy. The discussion of the harms for victims will be followed by the identification of three kinds of wrongs and the identification of three kinds of perpetrators.

Revenge pornography

Pornography

Objectification

non-consensual pornography

revenge porn laws

wrongs

harms

perpetrators

Author

Goudsmit, Marthe Liljana Rebecca

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Philosophy of Law

Supervisors

Verbeek, Bruno

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en