Sharing intimate images of another person without prior consent has immediate and long-lasting impacts.A broad portion of the general public understands the criminal nature of these behaviors and condemns them.of April 2024, former actor turned politician, Laurence Fox, shared a sexually explicit photograph of female presenter Narinder Kaur on. The image was an upskirting shot , which was shared without her consent.
Despite this behaviour not technically falling under U.K. legislation related to upskirting Act 2019), because the image was not captured by Fox himself, recent amendments to theOffences Act through the Online Safety Act mean that someone found guilty of sharing intimate images without consent could face up to six months in custody. has grown exponentially over the last decade.
In part, some of this response might stem from believing the general public will have and voice harsh and victim-blaming attitudes — such as why the victim sent the images in the first place. Though such attitudesbeen captured by research across the globe, never before have immediate responses to such viral IBSA been reported on. In the context of upcoming peer-reviewed research into this event, we briefly comment on the tone of public responses to Fox’s post here.