Over the weekend, Nicole Scherzinger's Instagram account was hacked with an advert which claimed to link to her sex tape. She's no stranger to having her privacy invaded, as earlier this year a video of her and ex-boyfriend Lewis Hamilton in bed together leaked online.
Whenever a leak happens, whether it's a major one like the 2014 Reddit photos of celebs like Jennifer Lawrence, or a more PG one like Nicole's, there are always people in the comments and on social media whose first instinct is to say 'you shouldn't have taken those photos in the first place.'
A sentiment which spectacularly misses the point.
It's not 'stupid' to expect your nudes to remain private, it's entirely correct.
Taking nude photos and having those photos remain private is a right.
For such a long time there has been this underlying sense that any woman who sends her nudes or makes a sex tape deserves to be publicly humiliated for her sins.
It's not irresponsible to express your sexuality and it's not stupid to expect the person you share your nudes with not to use them to hurt you. If you do take nudes and send them to a partner, the law is on your side. They cannot publish or share the images without your consent.
If they do, they're violating recently created laws designed to prevent women from being victims of so called 'revenge porn'.
Taking nudes is really common. A 2019 study by Zava found that 35% of people aged 25-34 have sent nude photographs, and 27% of people over the age of 45 have too.
It's true that it would be easier to avoid having your nudes leaked or your sex tape shared if you didn't take the pictures or make the video. But it would also be easier to avoid being robbed by not having any possessions, or to avoid being hit by a car by never crossing roads.
Why are we so quick to blame women when they experience hacks? And why are we so willing to offer up the curbing of a woman's sexual identity as the catch all solution?
In 2019, if a woman is a victim of sexual assault we are much less likely to ask what a she was wearing or whether she was drunk than we were a decade ago.
But there is still an underlying sentiment that a woman who photographs herself naked is 'asking for it'. Taking nude photos is the modern equivalent of wearing a short skirt.
Just like you have a right to wear a short dress, drink as much as you want and flirt without obligation, you also have every right to take pictures of yourself wearing as much or as a little clothing as you want, without fear.
When a nude picture or a sex tape is hacked, only one person is responsible, and it's the person who shared it without permission. Not the person who took a picture in good faith and shared it with someone they trusted.
While it should go without saying, looking at photographs which have been leaked, whether they're of celebrities or of people in your social circle, is beyond wrong. We have no right to see someone naked unless we've been invited to do so, and just because you look on a computer screen rather than in person doesn't make it any less perverse.
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