I'm wondering whether you have any quick thoughts on the male tendency when sharing "naughty" photos to go straight for a close-up shot of their penis. The recent saga over Rep. Wiener's alleged crotch shot Tweeting disaster has brought to mind a number of recent cases where high-profile men (like Kanye West and Brett Favre) have sent women similar shots in a seeming attempt to entice them. However, the response I've heard from women to such offerings can be generally summed up as: Ew, yuck. Do you have any insight on why men might think this sort of overture would work?

TCF

My response after the jump...

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First off, regarding Anthony Wiener, I gotta say that these are not the comments of a man who hasn't taken a picture of his dick at some point and sent it to someone for some reason.

That said, I think Wiener is going to beat this thing. (Sorry.) Does anyone else feel like they're watching the Americans-getting-over-politicians-who've-smoked-pot arc all over again—but this time at warp speed and with sexting standing in for THC? With pot we went from exposure resulting in an instantaneous resignation in 1986 (Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsberg) to a tacit admission being a survivable mini-scandal in 1992 (Bill "Smoked, Didn't Inhale" Clinton) to a huge collective shrug in 2008 (Barack "Yeah, I Got High, That Was the Whole Point" Obama). With dirty pics we've gone from instant resignation in February of 2011 (Rep. Christopher "Craiglist Congressman" Lee) to a tacit admission looking like a survivable mini-scandal in June of 2011 (Rep. Anthony "Beat This Thing" Wiener). If pot is prologue, we'll be shrugging off a congressman's dirty pics before Labor Day.

As for what men are up to with those cock shots...

That sort of overture doesn't work on most women. But the guys who send cock shots aren't interested in most women, TCF. They're interested in the sort of woman that this sort of overture works on. And the quickest way to find out if a woman is that sort of woman is to... send the cock shot.

And despite the unanimous "Ew, yuck!" from your friends, TCF, there are women out there who do respond positively to this sort of overture. You may even know some of them. Your friends who thought, "Well, it depends on the guy," may have told you, "Ew, yuck!", because it was clear from the "Ew, yuck!" look on your face that "Ew, yuck!" was what you wanted to hear.