Prevalence and Impacts of Image-Based Sexual Abuse Victimization: A Multinational Study

Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) refers to the nonconsensual creating, taking, or sharing of intimate images, including threats to share intimate images.Despite the signifcant harms of IBSA, there is limited data on its prevalence and how it afects diferent identity or demographic groups.This study examines prevalence of, impacts from, and responses to IBSA via a survey with over 16,000 adults in 10 countries.More than 1 in 5 (22.6%) respondents reported an experience of IBSA.Victimization rates were higher among LGBTQ+ and younger respondents.Although victimized at similar rates, women reported greater harms and negative impacts from IBSA than men.Nearly a third (30.9%) of victim-survivors did not report or disclose their experience to anyone.We provide large-scale, granular, baseline data on prevalence in a diverse set of countries to aid in the development of efective interventions that address the experiences and intersectional identities of victim-survivors. CCS Concepts• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.