Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online

Facebook has removed an Italian group that has witnessed men sharing intimate pictures of reassuring women often with thousands of people online.

The Mia Moglie collection, which translates into my wife in English, had about 32,000 members before closing this week.

Its discovery has been angry with the Italians who are concerned about similar groups growing in their absence.

Meta, who owns Facebook, said it closed the page “for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.”

The screenshots that were taken before removing the Facebook group appeared to show pictures of women in different cases of dressing, sometimes sleeping or during intimate moments.

Under jobs there were many explicit sexual comments from men. Some said they wanted to “rape” the woman while others praised the secret nature of some pictures.

The page was highlighted by author Carolina Capria, who was published on the Internet, saying that she felt “nausea” and “fearful” with what she saw.

She added: “This association with sex violence is so rooted in our culture that in a public group, men write without hiding their names and faces.”

“It was not just a harmful pleasure”, but rather “a virtual rape.”

“These platforms must be contested, this poisonous idea of ​​masculinity must be contested, and we all need to take action: civil society and politics as well.”

Revenger Porn, and the sharing of photos or explicit sexual videos that were aimed at survival, became illegal in Italy in 2019.

Italian media reports indicate that more than a thousand people have already informed the group to the police unit investigating cyber crime.

“We do not allow the content that threatens or enhances sexual violence, sexual assault, or sexual exploitation on our platforms,” ​​Meta statement added.

The Italian Facebook page was discovered Draw the similarities to Pelicot case in France. Last year, Dominic Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison for anesthesia, offending strangers and inviting them to rape his wife at the time, Gessel Pelicot.

Although he was hypothetical, Capria said that he showed that the Pelicot case was not anomalies as in both cases, he showed “a man who believes he can control his wife, who is indispensable sexual life.”