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In this type of intimate partner abuse the abuser exploits the victim’s sexting messages and or images via mobile phone, social media, or email. It is considered a form of intimate partner violence because it is non-consensual. The victim does not consent for the images to be sent to the family, friends, or posted on social media. The abuser looks to damage the victim’s social reputation or place fear in their victim through threats.  In most cases the images and texts were taken with consent but then the abuser later threatens to use the images and or texts against the victim by taking over the victims Facebook account or email and posting them on social media.    Non-consensual posting practices by the abuser is done without the victims consent by using the pictures in other ways, refusing to discharge of the pictures, by making threats, and by degrading the victim. In some cases since the pictures are nude or erotic the victims can be looked as porn participants. In California an anti-revenge porn bill has been put in place to charge a misdemeanor offence of disorderly conduct for those who post images of someone else without their consent and in which can cause them emotional distress to the victim. The only rule is that for cases like this it has to be the poster who took the picture. The picture could not have been taken by the victim themselves. Convicting the abuser becomes difficult because 80% of the time it is the person themselves (victim) who takes the sexual picture and sends it to the abuser themselves as an innocent sext. The only way the abuser can be charged is if they took the picture of the post themselves.  The bullying occurs because it causes emotional distress to the victim. They can feel shame or embarrassment. Unfortunately the problem will not go away easily by just turning off all forms of technology. This type of abuse, cyber bullying through sexing, is becoming popular among young daters in their relationships. This type of abuse is difficult to detect by law since most sexting starts off con-sensually.  Regrettably the abusers threaten the victims who converts the consented sexting text and or photography to a non-consensual text or image.<nowiki><ref>Henry, Nicola, and Anastasia Powell. “Beyond the ‘sext’: Technology-facilitated Sexual Violence and Harassment Against Adult Women. Australian        & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 48.1(2015):104-118.</ref></nowiki>