Kirsty Bosley: Jen's body is her business – we've no right to pry

Every morning I ease myself into the day by perusing social media on my iPhone. I scroll through Facebook and Twitter to find out what's happened in the world overnight, in bite-sized chunks.

You see, I can only handle short bursts of news at that time of the day and I confess to preferring my friends' delivery of it, rather than that of an overly chirpy breakfast TV presenter. I can get the same story from multiple sources and with a few hundred spins and I like the fun of that.

When someone's name is trending on Twitter, it means one of only a few things. Either that they're dead (#RIP), that they're in One Direction, or quite simply that they're involved in a scandal.

Seeing actress Jennifer Lawrence trending earlier this week piqued my curiosity. People I follow were talking about her in concerned tones. Cries – or rather tweets – of 'poor Jennifer' and 'that's awful' had me Googling a person I'd never taken any interest in before in my life. Some would call it nosy parkering. I prefer investigative journalism. To-may-to, to-mah-to.

Upon searching, it took seconds to happen upon photos of the 24-year-old completely naked. Not in the Playboy model airbrushed kind of a way, or for a lads' mag. Mobile phone-shot images of a young lady with no clothes on.

When I read that the photos had in fact been stolen from Jen's phone I felt gutted for her. Some geek had hacked into her personal phone and shared pictures of her that she says were never meant to be distributed publicly. I felt furious for her. How could anyone intrude in someone else's personal life like that?

In typical Kirsty fashion, I took to social media to share my fury. Jennifer Lawrence deserves better than this, I said. People can be horrid.

It didn't take long before a man I know commented to say that if she's 'too good to be shared online, she shouldn't be taking photographs of herself and leaving the filth on her phone'.

Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I readied my Facebook commenting thumbs and delivered my onslaught. Jennifer has the right to take photos of anything that she wants. Are we using the world 'filth' to describe photos of someone's naked body? Filth indicates dirt, uncleanliness. Certainly not the beautiful woman I'd seen that had her photographs stolen and unfairly distributed. No matter what body part this young actress chose to share, they were hers to do with as she willed. No one else.

JLaw may be in the public eye, but she's not our property. The internet hosts a wealth of naked photos of every type of consenting woman you could wish for. To share photographs of someone against their will makes my skin crawl. Imagine if that was your child? Jennifer has the right to her sexuality. We don't have a right to snatch it away from her for our entertainment.

I hear the term 'rape culture' bandied around often, but never before had I seen it in action until now.