by Sue Scheff | Mar 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Online abuse, harassment, stalking, revenge porn and hate is not only becoming the new norm, we are now watching it seep into places where we expect better from people – The U.S. Military (Marines). In 2013 I wrote about Adult Bullying: Harassment By People You...
by Sue Scheff | Jul 15, 2016 | Revenge Porn, Sexting, Sexual Shaming, SHAME NATION, Shaming, Slut Shaming
Could revenge porn finally be a federal crime? The “Intimate Privacy Protection Act” is an effort several years in the making to combat the rise in recent years of “revenge porn,” images that are shared on the internet in order to extort or humiliate someone. On July...
by Sue Scheff | Jun 15, 2016 | Revenge Porn, Sexting, Uncategorized, UnSlut
Slut Shaming. I recently read Peggy Orenstein’s best selling book, Girls & Sex, Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, and it brought me back to the movie — The Breakfast Club. Why? Well, interestingly, even back in 1985 before social media or any...
by Sue Scheff | Jun 3, 2016 | Digital Shaming, Online Harassment, Online Shaming, Revenge Porn, Sexting
It’s a reality, sexting a new form of flirting, but it doesn’t make it right. As a matter of fact, it could potentially have legal consequences as well as result in revenge porn or sextortion. What is sexting? According to Merriam-Webster, sexting is “The...
by Shame Nation | May 24, 2016 | Digital Shaming, Online Shaming, Revenge Porn, Shaming
You could literally be one-click away. Annmarie Chiarini’s life was turned upside down with a click of mouse — accepting a friend request from an old friend that turned out to be her nightmare. She is someone that turned her horrific situation into...