At least four AFL players are members of a Facebook group which circulates photos of scantily clad women without their knowledge.
Invite-only Facebook group "The Brocial Network" encourages its 8000 all-male followers to trawl their social media sites for raunchy photos of friends and upload them to the group, The Age reports.
It is believed the four players are from a Melbourne-based AFL club.
"Bros", as members of the group are known, post the women's names under the photos as well as links to their full profiles.
According to The Age, members must abide by "The Brocial Code", which states images should be of girls "revealing a little too much".
Another rule states members must upload a raunchy photo within a week of them joining otherwise they will be deleted from the group.
A 21-year-old woman, pictured in a bikini, said she had no idea her photo was used on the page.
"It make me feel sick that people would go to the effort of taking [uploading] the picture and posting it up," Tillii told The Age.
"I just thought [the picture] would be taken as fun, not as the way that they're turned around."
She says she has since received many friend requests on Facebook from unknown men.
The group's founding member, "King Brocial", has frozen the group after members tried to add female friends.
Despite outrage from females pictured in the group, there are no privacy laws to prevent the sharing of private images on social networking sites.
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