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Except it wasn't art and context matters.

Softcore pornography generally contains nudity or partial nudity in sexually suggestive situations, but not explicit sexual activity.

She half-nude on a bed. I'd say that fits the definition.

Not necessarily. It depends on the expression. Beds are used mainly for resting and many people sleep naked or half naked. Perhaps it is an American thing to see everything as pornography when it involves a naked body but there are many cases when it is not and is art instead (yes - that includes half naked women or men sitting on the bed). Please not that it doesn't follow that her consent is not required in this case.

The only person calling it "porn" is the author of this article published on a conservative site. It's double-cickbait ("how awful!" and "...but I wanna see porn").

True, I didn't even notice. What a weird way to present this.

Irrelevant.

The point is she didn’t consent to her image being used in this way.

There's a heck of a difference between someone voluntarily participating in a photo shoot that involves nudity, and a random person taking your face and photoshopping it onto a nude body.

Consent is the difference between art and revenge porn.