Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2014
ISSN
0043-003X
Publisher
Wake Forest University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Violations of sexual privacy, notably the non-consensual publication of sexually graphic images in violation of someone's trust, deserve criminal punishment. They deny subjects' ability to decide if and when they are sexually exposed to the public and undermine trust needed for intimate relationships. Then too they produce grave emotional and dignitary harms, exact steep financial costs, and increase the risks of physical assault. A narrowly and carefully crafted criminal statute can comport with the First Amendment. The criminalization of revenge porn is necessary to protect against devastating privacy invasions that chill self-expression and ruin lives.
Recommended Citation
Danielle K. Citron & Mary Anne Franks,
Criminalizing Revenge Porn
,
in
49
Wake Forest Law Review
345
(2014).
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