Virginia Senate Bill #96 would, if enacted, increase the penalty for posting pornographic pictures or videos on the Internet without the consent of the person photographed. Full text:
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB96
As with a related House Bill...I'd like to extend the provisions of this legislation to apply to any photo of any person taken without the person's consent. I've seen face images in guys' private porn collections--including some images of my face and clothed body, because obviously the guys to whose porn collections I've had access were guys I was dating at the time--so if the concern is merely about "impure thoughts," there's no reason to exempt face or clothed-body images.
And if it's a more reasonable concern about people's privacy, or about people being Photoshopped to suggest that they've done things they've not done, then face and clothed-body images should definitely be included. Most of us could suffer more personal harm from our images being used to suggest falsely that we've been doing any number of things people do with their clothes on, like taking bribes, socializing with terrorists, or even smoking cigarettes, than from the (by now ludicrous) suggestion that we've been posing for pornographic videos.
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I was raped by a man who I tried dating afterwards only to find out that he was recording us without ever asking or giving me a choice. I found the stuff on the internet and went to the police would said there was nothing he could do about it, even though this guys name came up on the website!!!! I am currently being charged for harassment as it seems it was okay for him to contact me regarding sex. But I was never allowed to contact him. IF they had a law that states notarized contacts between consenting party where the only legal way to practice this so called civil right, it would protect girls like me who don't and didn't want to be part of that community. They won't even address this issue, they are claiming that I have to take responsibility for my actions which I am fine with, but why aren't they making this person accountable for his?
ReplyDeleteAlthough voting on HB96 has been postponed until next year, this bill might help you.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I can't resist a motherly impulse. If a dating situation snowballed into the kind of "date rape" you describe, you already know that you're not sufficiently empowered in this relationship to make it work. Don't date this man again. By claiming it was rape and then seeing him again, as far as anyone who doesn't know him and you very well is concerned, you stereotype yourself as the demented stalker from whom he and others need to be protected. You, PSCC, already know this, but we need to spell it out in case someone more naive is reading this.