The Rise of Shame Nation In the Marines

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...

Intimate Privacy Protection Act

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....

Slut Shaming

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...

Revenge Porn

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...