Revenge porn sites are the scummiest of Internet scum. Imagine having your most intimate photos leaked online for all your friends, family and coworkers to see. Victims of revenge porn are numerous – and many of them are too ashamed to come forward.

One woman is about to change all that. Holly Jacobs is on a mission to end the vomit-inducing horror of revenge porn. Jacobs will be the first Florida resident to file a criminal suit against her ex for distributing revenge porn, according to her lawyer Patrick McGeehan.

Jacobs knows all too well the horrific aftermath of having intimate photos and a video of herself plastered all over the Internet. After ending a relationship with Ryan Seay, Jacobs believes Seay uploaded intimate photos and videos of her to prominent revenge porn sites. The uploader attached her name, email address, a screenshot of her Facebook profile and comments about her so-called “sluttiness.”

Later, a cyberstalker changed her Facebook profile photo to a naked photo of herself. The perpetrator also sent a video of her masturbating to her boss and co-worker.

Jacobs quit her job as a teaching assistant and changed her name, which was Holli Thometz, in an effort to escape the harassment.

But now she has come forward to help other victims of revenge porn and cyberstalking.

“I hope that I’ll set an example and show this is how you overcome this: by coming forward,” she said. “You’re not exposing yourself – you’re already exposed on the Internet. Instead, you’re exposing what is happening to you. Everybody’s going to see me naked, and everybody’s going to see me do things I never wanted anybody to see except the person I was with. But if it’s in the name of the cause and to change the laws about this, then I’m happy to do it. We’re all naked underneath our clothes.”

After her harrowing experience, Jacobs decided to create End Revenge Porn, a site where victims of revenge porn and activists can come together, commiserate and provide advice and resources to one another. She has consulted with professors, politicians, and lawyers on the site’s creation. She’s also started a support group called Women Against Revenge Porn.

Seay, her alleged cyberstalker, is being charged with one count of stalking, two counts of harassment by use of personal identification info and one count of unlawful publication, according to Mark Cox, chief of investigations at the Florida state attorney’s office.

As we noted earlier, this is the first time a Florida resident has sued her ex over revenge porn. So far, taking action against revenge porn sites like HunterMooreTV and Texxxan.com and their service providers has proven fruitless for victims and advocates, since the sites are protected under Section 230 in the Communications Decency Act.

New Jersey is the only state to have an explicit law against revenge porn while Florida (where Jacobs resides) was in the process of passing a law that would have made it a felony to distribute revenge porn. Unfortunately, the bill wasn’t passed due to bureaucratic red tape.

To help end revenge porn and show your support for victims, sign this petition from End Revenge Porn.