Revenge Porn

Bhavna Bhasin
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Can’t jack off to memory, can I?
I never spent time mapping your body
so assist,
just like you do,
with your hand, mouth
and parted two
baby,send me a picture of you..

hey not just that,
i want to see your pretty face too
don’t be shy
send me a picture of you..

who will you complain to?
that hungry cop
who hides his bulge under
the complaint diary
come on, show me what you’re wearing..
send me a picture of you..

Sec 67 of IT Act?
Hah, darling
You’ll be punished for
taking part in obscenity too
It’s nothing I’ve not seen,
now, be a good girl,
send me a picture of you..

Choke the optical fibre cables
with nudes
but shame any artist
who’d like to exhibit a boudoir shoot
because that’s not art
you’re a pervert
why won’t you just jack off to a picture
of your girlfriend
like the rest of us do?

don’t have a girlfriend?
not a problem.
we’ve got bespoke porn
we care for you

Right to privacy revoked,
Maybe it’s time we all link our nudes
to Aadhar,
and behold,
an entire country
masturbating to
women,
who tried to be
bold.

Bhavna Bhasin

Revenge porn has been around since the time of the DPS MMS clip, since 2004–13 years and I’m sure it still exists in some secret folders of hard drives around the country. People film themselves in the act of making love or request each other for pictures, out of love or lust — but in good faith. However unfulfilled psychopaths unable to handle rejection or loneliness dig out sensitive images from their repository and blackmail others into companionship or sexual gratification.

It infuriates me that our legal framework has hardly kept up with the digital India campaign. Perhaps all that we’d end up ‘making in India’, is this filth.

Bhavna Bhasin

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Writer, Content & Brand Strategist, leaving poetry in the gaps between offensive policy & apathy. I live to offend and comfort, come find out where you fall.

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