While pregnant, mummy blogger Meg Ireland did what many expecting women do – she posted ample snaps of her growing bump to social media. What happened next was truly shocking.
The now mum-of-two was appalled to find her pregnancy photo littered across an area of the Internet she’d never heard about: the disconcerting world of preggophilia porn.
For those who are unaware, preggophilia the fetishisation of women who are with child. According to preggophilia.com, the sites provide a forum for “admirers of pregnant women”. These range from “Pictures of pregnant teens” to “Pregnant celebrities” and “Belly expansion photos”.
For Meg, finding her photos on a porn website used without her knowledge or permission, was inexplicably sickening.
“I see so many people upload their bump pics and now I just gasp and hope to god they don’t get into the hands of someone they shouldn’t,” the writer warned her Instagram followers. “We shouldn’t have to worry about people stealing our photos, but unfortunately it happens ALL THE TIME! When I was scrolling through this god awful site trying to find where this thread was, I saw some pretty f**ked up sh*t.”
