Jessica fields multiple calls from distressed young women whose intimate images have been shared without consent. She listens calmly, asks clarifying questions, and compiles case details to guide removal and legal options. The Revenge Porn Helpline has operated since 2015, offering advice to victims whose partners or exes uploaded nude images or footage. Call volumes have increased more than fortyfold since opening, with a 20.9% rise in reports during 2024. The helpline began within a small safer technology charity and later received government funding. The growth of smartphones and social media enabled widespread non-consensual image-sharing and new forms of online harm.
By midday, Jessica has dealt with five calls from highly distressed young women in their 20s, all close to tears or crying at the start of the conversations. She absorbs their alarm calmly, prompting them with questions, making sympathetic noises into her headset as she digests the situation. Are these images sexual in nature? she asks the last woman she speaks to before lunch.
For the past decade, the helpline has been offering advice to callers whose partners or exes have uploaded nude images or footage of them without their consent. It's a shocking time for you. I'm so sorry to hear what happened, she says, as the caller explains that, just a few hours earlier, an ex-partner messaged her to tell her he had decided to post videos of them having sex on the OnlyFans website. Have you called the police? And they haven't got back to you?
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