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A college freshman gets a Google alert on her own name and finds out why. A father learns his 13-year-old is in a group chat where boys are trading fake nudes of girls in her grade. A woman recognizes her own face on a site she's never visited, in a video she never made.

None of them knew the word for what was happening to them. That's the first problem we're here to solve.

This page is where you start if you want to actually understand image-based sexual abuse: what it is, what it isn't, who's writing about it, and what the biggest cases of the last few years actually tell us. Not the version that gets flattened into a headline. The real shape of it.

Types & Terms

Every form this abuse takes, and the language to name it.

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Books & Reports

The researchers, journalists, and survivors whose work built this field, from the US, UK, and Canada.

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Case Studies

Five of the biggest recent cases, and what each one changed.

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Why Enforcement Is Hard

How the internet is actually built, and why a 48-hour takedown law only reaches one layer of it.

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For Students

Five fast, real reads about what's actually happening to people your age.

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We didn't have this page when we needed it. That's exactly why it exists now.

If this is happening to you right now, you don't need to read any of this first →

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