Nude Exploitation

From young teenage girls to successful career women, nude images are used as leverage against women to reduce their credibility and tarnish their reputation. Sharanya Sekaram in her piece, “On revenge porn and shaming women’s bodies”, discusses the manipulation of nudes in the media. Women’s nude photos are frequently exploited on media platforms by men who received them. As Sekaram notes in her article, when these photos are widely distributed women are being shamed and uncontrollably critiqued. Social media platforms are the modern-day vehicle for angry men to disrespect and shame women who “wronged” them and random women’s bodies as well. This form of online harassment is relatively new because of the recent increase in social media among a wide range of demographics, however the body shaming and crucifixion of women is not a modern concept. It is important for the media to be vigilantly policed on nude explottaion and there to be punishments in place for when this does occur.