“They go up and there’s nothing I can do about it.”
TV presenter and model Vogue Williams has spoken about how images of her face recently appeared on pornographic websites on the Internet.
Last weekend, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Gardaí discovered photoshopped images of Irish female celebrities Rachel Allen, Claire Byrne, Kathryn Thomas and Williams on pornographic websites while they were conducting an investigation into revenge porn.
Speaking about the episode on the Late Late Show on Friday night, Williams said: “A lot of well-known faces, including mine, were photoshopped onto naked bodies and now I’m basically on porn websites, which is fantastic (said sarcastically).”
“I’m not upset about it, I’m annoyed about it,” she continued.
“They (pictures) go up and there’s nothing I can do about it. They go up onto one site, then they go up onto hundreds of sites and you can’t get them down. They’ll never come down.”
No legal framework currently exists in Ireland to prosecute a person who uploads an image of another person without consent, unless they are underage.
Williams said that the pictures could potentially affect her employment prospects, particularly when working in London, and also spoke of the wider consequences of revenge porn on the Internet.
“There’s not really, at the moment, any laws in Ireland to stop all that and I suppose the Internet, you can’t stop it, it’s like wildfire,” she added.
Following Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s calls for a national conversation about pornography, sexologist Emily Power Smith and columnists Brenda Power and Ian O’Doherty engaged in a debate on the topic on the Late Late Show, snippets of which can be seen below.
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