This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Cyber flashing on dating app should be a crime.
The perpetrators should be made to sign the sex offenders register and be banned from using online dating apps. Flashing isn't a victimless crime. Unsolicoted photos of genitals is distressing and vulgar. Most of these crimes are committed by men towards women.
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Most women in the UK have been a victim of sexual harassment or abuse in their lifetime. these images appear in a chat it can't have a trauma response and create flashbacks to abuse suffered. We ask that the act of sending penises to a stranger be seen as a criminal offence.
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The Online Safety Bill, a proposed set of new laws which the Government has introduced to Parliament and which Parliament is currently debating, already includes measures that would make cyberflashing a criminal offence, including on dating apps.
You can find out more about the Government's plans to criminalise cyberflashing here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cyberflashing-to-become-a-criminal-offence
You can follow the Online Safety Bill's progress, and read the Bill in its entirety, here: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
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