Legislation round unsolicited nudes defined as Azealia Banks accuses Conor McGregor of ‘sexual harassment’

Warning: This text comprises dialogue of sexual harassment which some readers could discover distressing

It has been a busy week on the web after Azealia Banks accused Conor McGregor of sexual assault by sending her unsolicited nude, which she went on to publish throughout social media. There’s quite a bit to unpack.

It began over the weekend, when the ‘212’ rapper took to X to name out the MMA fighter, not for sending the photographs within the first place, however for showing to threaten her into not ‘ratting’ on him for sending them.

In now-deleted screenshots of the trade, McGregor appeared to ship a nude picture of himself with a weight on his manhood, with the caption ‘lifting weights’.

Nevertheless, it was the follow-up message which seems to have actually riled up the rapper, as he wrote: “Do not be a rat cos all rats get caught.”

Sharing the screenshots on X, she wrote: “The way you gonna ship a b**** a some crooked d*** pics then threaten her to not inform. @TheNotoriousMMA n**** have you learnt who the f*** I’m? That is HARAM.”

In a follow-up publish, the rapper accused McGregor ‘sexually harassed’ her, nevertheless, each posts have since been deleted.

Do Conor McGregor and Azealia Banks have historical past?

Regardless of by no means having met in particular person and never really following one another on social media, the rapper left everybody confused the place she went on to assert that she and McGregor having been sending one another x-rated snaps for years.

“No me and Conor McGregor have been sending one another unsolicited nudes since 2016, LOL,” she wrote.

The pair have additionally backed one another up on social media previously, with the engaged MMA fighter claiming Banks’ ‘rise from the ashes’ served as ‘payback’ to those that criticised her when individuals tried to cancel her.

Are unsolicited nudes sexual harassment?

When express content material is shipped with out the consent of the particular person receiving it, it’s thought-about to be a type of sexual harassment.

Within the UK, the time period ‘cyberflashing’ refers to when somebody sends a photograph or video of their genitals to a different particular person with out consent.

Sexual harassment consists of any inappropriate and undesirable verbal, non-verbal or bodily sexual advances, whatever the perpetrator’s intentions.

Is it unlawful?

In some counties, cyberflashing is a prison offence nevertheless it relies upon the place the content material is being despatched from.

In McGregor’s native Eire, the normal act of flashing, ie in public locations, is illegitimate below the Sexual Offences Act of 2017.

Whereas it would not specify cyberflashing, courts have interpreted this legislation to use to on-line exercise as effectively.

In the US, the place Azealia Banks lives and McGregor was believed to be across the time the pictures have been despatched, sending unsolicited nudes is just not criminalised below federal legislation, nevertheless a number of states have made it unlawful.

In Texas, sending express content material with out consent is a category C misdemeanor.

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