"The drive behind these websites is completely malicious," said Holly Jacobs, founder of EndRevengePorn.org, a national campaign of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and herself a victim of the websites. "It is this day and age's Scarlet Letter - it is just a way for (people) to get back at their exes for breaking up with them or cheating on them."
In Ohio, hundreds of people are using the Internet to punish and humiliate ex-lovers and others by posting nude and pornographic photos and videos of them along with their personal information, such as their names, ages, home addresses and how to contact them. A majority of the victims are women.
"Revenge porn" websites contain hundreds of explicit images of women from across southwest Ohio, and most images and profile pages have been viewed thousands of times by visitors to the sites.
Many of the area women featured on these websites told the Dayton Daily News they were unaware sexually-explicit images of them existed online, and most said they never dreamed private photos would be shared on the Internet for the purposes of hurting and humiliating them.
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