SAN DIEGO - A US man sobbed as he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for operating a "revenge porn" website.

Kevin Bollaert, from San Diego, ran the website ugotposted.com which featured more than 10,000 sexually explicit photos of people, mostly women, which had been submitted by their ex-lovers.

Jailed... The operator of a revenge porn website has been jailed for 18 years for posting thousands of sexually explicit photos which were submitted by their ex-lovers. Credit:Louise Kennerley

Unlike other revenge porn websites where photos are anonymous, ugotposted.com required the person posting the image to include full details of the subject, Sky News reported.

These included their full name, location, age and Facebook profile link. There was also an option to include the victim's phone number.