Justice officials are seeking a six-month jail sentence for a Winnipeg man who posted intimate videos of his ex-girlfriend on pornographic websites.

The 35-year-old accused pleaded guilty to distributing intimate images of a person without their consent, an offence only recently added to the Criminal Code. The Sun is not naming the accused as it may identify his 31-year-old victim.

"The videos were made consensually but (the victim) did not agree to them being posted online and dispersed throughout the Internet," Crown attorney Stephanie Harland told Judge Rocky Pollack at a sentencing hearing Thursday.

Court heard the accused was bound by a court order to have no contact with the victim when in 2015 he posted three homemade sex videos on well-known pornographic websites and identified the victim by name. The victim's face is clearly visible in all three videos, while the accused's is not, Harland said.

The victim only learned about the videos after a man who saw them online contacted her via Facebook.

The woman, writing in a victim impact statement provided to court, said she felt "mortified and distraught" upon learning the videos had been posted online. The woman said she was forced to resign from her job after her employer learned of the videos.

Submissions by both the Crown and defence suggested boredom and an online shopping addiction influenced the accused man's actions.

The accused "recognizes he may have too much time on his hands," said defence lawyer Amado Claros, who urged Pollack to sentence the man to 98 days time served. "He recognizes what he did is not only morally wrong but criminally wrong."

The accused cried in court and said he felt "terrible" about what he had done to the victim.

The man will return to court for sentencing Oct. 24. He remains in custody.