Marianna Taschinger along with dozens of other women are suing after their intimate photos were sent by their exes on a "revenge porn" website.
Taschinger that a man she had date for a few months posted private photos she sent him on the "revenge porn" website, Texxxan.com.
"He eventually got me to trust him and I did," Taschinger said to ABC News. "I guess I didn't know that people were that horrible."
Holley Toups is another woman suing the website. ABC News reports that Toups was at work one day when a friend called her to tell her she saw her online.
"She said, 'I overheard some people talking about a website. Its pictures, you know, explicit photos that people have posted,' and she said, 'you're on there,'" Toups said to ABC News.
Toups searched the site and found semi-naked photos that she sent to an ex boyfriend, posted on "revenge porn site," Texxxan.com.
The website takes these intimate photos sent in by breguntled exes and posts them on their website as "revenge."
Dozens of women are suing the website for use of their photos. They have filed a petition for damages and hope to have a class action lawsuit towards texxxan.com and their hosting site, Go Daddy.
"I just can't imagine why someone would do this to anyone," she said to ABC News.
Julia Spira an online dating expert said to ABC News that "their email address, phone numbers, your home address also get posted along with these photos."
Toups and Taschinger are telling their stories on a website called "End Revenge Porn" which helps victims and lobbies to amend laws so "revenge porn is perceived to be a criminal act."
"The victims of this act are unable to stop it from happening because law enforcement will not even allow these cases to be reported," The petition page on the website states, "State police argue that the crime is occurring on the internet, which therefore crosses state lines and is out of their jurisdiction. The FBI claim that these cases are civil and/or do not threaten national security and should therefore be handled solely by lawyers."
Hunter Moore is the pioneer of the "revenge porn" model that hs seemingly swept the web. His website, IsAnybodyUp, which is now closed down, featured naked photos of people, submitted by other people and include their full name and location.
He said to The New York Observer in December, "In a perfect world there would be no bullying and there would be no people like me and there would be no sites like mine," he explained. "But we don't live in a perfect world."
Texxxan.com has since closed and become a "members only" site since the lawsuit surfaced.
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