These so-called 'revenge porn' sites are one of the darkest incarnations of the internet, housing images of now-spurned former partners who once voluntarily posed in a sexually provocative way, thinking they were taking part in something intimate and private with someone they could trust.
But it's not just those who willingly - some might say naively, even foolishly - take and send such images who can end up as the victims of revenge porn.
Some images are lifted from social media sites and manipulated on-screen to turn them into pornography.
Others are stolen using sophisticated spyware, which can switch on and then control cameras on a victim's computer or 'smart' TV. Last month Oliver Whiting (top right), 36 and a father of one, posted explicit images of 13 women - including colleague Nikki Elliott (bottom right) - on a website that serves as a forum for users wanting to express their most disturbing sexual fantasies.
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