Comment on The first 'cyberflasher' is convicted under England's new law and gets more than 5 years in prison
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt feels like something that should fall under existing sexual harassment laws at least, but probably doesn’t because of specific wording that requires a physical act, removing photo/video as qualifying.
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Unfortunately, I don’t think many jurisdictions take flashing seriously whatever the medium. It’s known to be an early warning sign of much more serious sexual offending but police treat it as a bit of a laugh, boys will be boys, nothing to see here.
Dismissing indecent exposure as ‘flashing’ led to the murder of Sarah Everard