Instance 1: Boy proposes to girl; girl refuses; boy gets upset and decides to take revenge – after all he has easy access to girl’s photos and videos. Boy makes a fake email id of the girl and uses it to upload her personal contact details online as if she is soliciting;
Boy and girl meet and start dating; girl breaks up with boy; boy threatens to upload pictures and videos they both took on their phones by consent and forces girl to continue the relationship. In some instances, it could have worse consequences of threatening the girl to dispense sexual favours to others or be blackmailed into paying money.
Instance 2: Roles could be reversed and it could be that the boy breaks up and the girl threatens him with pictures and videos they took together.
Instance 3: Married couples decide to get adventurous and take amorous photos and videos and if they break up, these videos become strong weapons. One spouse starts threatening the other with exposure online or through other digital modes.
If you are a victim of Revenge Porn, the law indeed provides punishments against such blackmail and extortion.
Revenge Porn is a slow poison offence, which, otherwise law-abiding persons and in many instances children and youngsters indulge in. Armed with mobile phones, everyone seems to forget that recording of private moments and threatening using them is definitely an offence. Such crimes are mostly driven by passion and misguided belief in entitlement.