What’s in a name? Why ‘revenge porn’ doesn’t work as a term in Brazil

Abstract

This article is part of a broader project, namely a doctoral research in social anthropology on the production, exchange, and circulation of erotic digital images of women (nudes), their possible spread (leaks) as well as their legal, political, social and moral consequences. Here, I dedicate myself to critically presenting a certain taxonomy present in the debates about nudes and leaks, approaching the different ways of naming the phenomenon brought by the media, by feminist activists, by academic incursions, as well as by my research interlocutors. I pay special attention to the potentialities and limits of terms employed and disputed, embedded in gendered semantic, political and moral connections.