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REVENGE – NAKED AND VICTIMIZED ON THE INTERNET Bad enough to have a bad break up. Even worse when you think about the naughty pictures you took for him. But when that ex decides the best way to get back at you is to post those sexual pictures on the internet, you have revenge – a not necessarily illegal and wholly vindictive assault that affects as many as tens of thousands of women. And where those pictures are posted range from eBay and Facebook to special revenge sites specifically designed to appeal to the vindictive. Elizabeth Zwerling is an award-winning journalist and journalism professor based in Southern California. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles and Bay Area newspaper groups, she has written about education, media, and health and gender justice for Women's Enews, Ms. Magazine, the Online Journalism Review, Pasadena Weekly, Patch.com and Public Radio, among others. She knows about revenge and she will tell us what it is, to whom it happens, and what, if anything, victims can do about