Laura* lives in fear that intimate photos and videos taken by her ex-partner will end up in the inboxes of her family, friends and colleagues.
After Laura refused to send her ex-partner money following their break-up, he sent intimate pictures and videos to her son and 83-year-old mother without her permission, and threatened to post them to porn websites.
He used the images, along with copies of her driver's licence and passport, to harass her at home and work for months, forcing her to delete her social media accounts.
Despite revenge porn being a criminal offence in South Australia, police were unable to prosecute and could only offer Laura counselling sessions.
"This type of crime has overtaken any other crime [and] police don't have the technology to be able to deal with it," Laura told BuzzFeed News.
She thinks the current laws leave victims feeling like they are ones being punished, not the perpetrators who walk away without facing prosecution.
In November, the minister for women Michaelia Cash said the government was considering penalties for revenge porn perpetrators and the websites that host their material, but there has since been no progress.
Justice minister Michael Keenan said this week the current laws are sufficient despite advice from legal experts to the contrary.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions' (CDPP) submission to a revenge porn Senate inquiry said existing laws didn't cover all types of revenge porn.
“There are limitations on existing Commonwealth laws to adequately deal with ‘revenge porn’ conduct,” the CDPP submission read.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Panel on Reducing Violence against Women and their Children, chaired by former Victorian police commissioner Ken Lay, has also called on the government to legislate stronger criminal sanctions and penalties.
Labor's shadow minister for equality Terri Butler wants the government to "stop making excuses" and immediately make sharing intimate images without consent a crime across Australia.
“A Senate inquiry and the COAG [panel] have both recommended that the Commonwealth criminalise so-called revenge porn,” Butler told BuzzFeed News.
“It is well past time for the Turnbull government to move beyond complaints mechanisms, and arm the Australian Federal Police and Commonwealth DPP with criminal provisions allowing them to respond to this disgusting abuse,” she said.
Victim Laura agreed: "Revenge porn is abhorrent. There should be a law making it illegal as soon as possible."
At the time of publishing, justice minister Michael Keenan's office had not responded to BuzzFeed News' requests for clarification on the government's position.
* Not her real name.