Maria Diaz

Revenge Porn

I just submitted a speaker proposal to the Sex 2.0 Conference inspired by my Bravo blog. So, this Gretchen Rossi person on Real Housewives, who I always felt was annoying (that laugh!) but harmless, has had her life ripped apart by a dude posting photos of her on Myspace. I'm obsessed with the idea that things that were formerly secrets really can't be anymore.

There is also this other trend in online porn, of people posting photos of their ex girlfriends either naked or engaged in sex. It's a big thing now, whether or not it's true (you can of course label any porn video anything you want on the Internet), it still speaks to the fact that this is now some kind of trend. If you break up with someone and dared to experiment in this manner, now you risk having that person put your business all over the place. And now with everyone on Facebook and tagging? Forget it. One false move and everyone's seen your naked photos.

I'm certainly not going to recommend slut shaming. Take naked photos if you want, but I still think it's alarming and only going to get worse with everyone now obsessed with photographing and documenting every thing that ever happens to them.

It should be an interesting discussion, especially amongst a crowd that normally puts naked photos of themselves online and blogs their sex lives.

This time tomorrow, I'll be in Austin. When it's done, I'll be a SXSW speaker. That's pretty cool. The song of the day is Lily Allen's The Fear. I post it because she got in big trouble for beating up a paparazzi today.

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