Pajiba

According to my female friends, guys in general are way too quick to send pictures of their peen. Really? I may be wrong, but I don't think most women are interested in seeing your wang, especially when they have yet to meet you in person! As one of my friends so aptly said, "A guy could go down to Olan Mills to have his wang photographed, and it still wouldn't look good to my eyes!"

The twisted thing about leaked celeb nudie pictures is that firstly, like you said, they seem to believe that somehow, this won't happen to them; and yet, if they weren't kind of famous (not per se interchangeable with important) it probably wouldn't happen. It's not like any of my discretion-lacking friends' photos have been front page of TMZ.

Something I've believed from an early age (and I'm not sure where I picked this up):
1. Nothing in writing
2. No pictures or video

Those, my dears, are what we call 'evidence.'

I was going to attempt something witty and intelligent to express my amazement that seemingly intelligent people still don't grok the NETwork part of interNET, but I got tired because of all the frowning and slow head shaking so, sigh.

Also, snizz is my favourite word of the day.

Courtney you make some good points. But with today’s technology it is difficult to blame Weiner from a technological standpoint. I mean really, who among us hasn’t sent a picture or two to someone we are having a conversation with and that picture ending up in the wrong hands? The guy has suffered enough.

Who fucking cares. Are we going to judge people on their ability to do their jobs based on the content of their phones? Perhaps every public figure or celebrity should have their computer's hard drive searched before they're elected to office or star in a movie? Perhaps the fetish porn they're into doesn't suit our delicate sensibilities! Jesus Christ I bet these people have sex too!

I don't disagree that's it's pretty ignorant to be surprised and outraged when these pictures you sent to whomever get leaked, but if some asshat decides to hack my phone and spread my manwich around the world, well, fuck them. Also, IT IS SO TEN INCHES!

This is an almost appropriate story. There was a kid on my hall freshman year who ticked off his roommate. Said roommate would throw open his window every day as students were going to the dining hall and yell "It's five o'clock, my name is Rich (redacted) and I'm not wearing any pants!" This went on for most of the semester. Near the end of the semester everyone on the floor went out for drinks and general tomfoolery. Rich was talking to a group of young women at the bar, and it seemed to be going pretty well for him (he was in fact a pretty nice guy.). So, one of the ladies asked him his name-"Oh, I'm Rich."

"Wait-are you the Rich that doesn't wear any pants?"

As we all died laughing, he stormed off. The point of this story folks, is that this shit follows you. Just don't do it.

This post is useless without pics.

This made me think of an Isacc Asimov book, the name escapes me at the moment. In the society in that book there was a difference between viewing someone or seeing someone in person. All kinds of things were allowed when viewing that would never be done in person. Being naked while being viewed was quite common. I wonder is it really stupidity or are we witnessing a fundamental shift in thinking that we old foggies just can't relate to? Either way I think it speaks to the brilliance of Mr. Asimov to recognize that we seem to behave differently when we are even one step removed from our audience.

I would just like to step in and say that there are women who ask for junk-pics. It's happened to me. And I have sent them. I have no regrets, and they will never come back to haunt me.

I, however, am an inconsequential plebe. I've never run for office (though I can take apart the remote control, and almost put it back together), nor am I famous. Of those two things can't be said for you - don't send nude pictures of yourself. Whether they're asked for or volunteered.

That is all.

RE jimbob:

I think Olan Mills is running a special this month on wang photography. My favorite is wang with the tree background. It makes it look like it's in a primeval forest, getting back to nature, as it were.

If we are going to tar and feather elected officials for having bad judgment, THIS is small potatoes indeed. Look, ridiculous shit like this is NOT going to improve the quality of our elected officials, it is just going to weed out all but the ones best at covering their tracks ensuring the MOST corrupt leadership possible. Running for office these days means a constant barrage of attack on one's character. I can't believe anyone in their right mind would WANT to run for office. It is Much Ado About NOTHING, and as usual, the bored, stressed out, desperate for entertainment, American public is eating it up. The news media trades in outrage, so they just keep whipping things up to keep people angry and/or afraid. Was a SINGLE LAW BROKEN? No? Well then.... Can we move on?

First of all I dont think you can blame celebrities for doing the same dumb shit that everyone does. If little Susie down the block were famous then her nude pics would be online too.

Personally I dont know why guys do it. I dont care if you are a woman or a gay man, who wants to see a picture of a dong??
I guess girls only do it because their boyfriends beg them to do it.
To all the ladies: DONT DO IT. GUYS ALWAYS SHOW THEIR FRIENDS AFTER YOU BREAK UP.

I recall an ex girlfriend would always tell me that she was going to make a video of herself, if you know what I mean. She never did but I probably would have held onto it if she had. And Im a nice guy.

If it were against the law, we'd have to lock up 90% of people using Plentyoffish.

I do not believe there are real live women who actually request dick pix without the ulterior motive of trying to convince a guy that he's the studliest stud who ever owned a cellphone. Or else they're accumulating blackmail material.

You know, this kinda reminds me of one of the more unrealistic scenes in Kick-Ass (the comic). After Dave is outed as straight, the girl he was crushing on gets revenge on him by having her boyfriend beat the crap out of him. Okay, fair enough, he was a douche who faked being gay. But then she sends a picture of herself giving a blowjob to said boyfriend to rub it in. And Dave, being an absolute pussy, actually cries about it.

It was stupid, and confirmed to me the absolute cluelessness of Mark Millar. Because I cannot think of one single guy who wouldn't forward that pic to every number in his phone and everyone on Facebook just to show her up. She basically counts on Dave's low self-esteem to keep him from showing her vacuuming skills to God and country, and it works. That is a pretty big risk, especially after you have him beaten up. The movie's version (where she instantly fall for him anyway) makes more fucking sense.

And you know what? That makes me sad. I am sad that the world has gotten to such a place where the first thing that popped in my head was "What? He doesn't show the bitch up by posting her sausage fest on Flickr?" I hate that. I hate that cynicism. I hate that utter disrespect for human decency.

Look, when it is clearly a marketing ploy, I am annoyed as much as anyone. but those few occasions when it is just plain Idiot Ball Time, well, I can't hate on them. And really, just because someone DOES put naughty pictures up, do we really HAVE to gawk/condemn them? Can't we just tell the carnival barkers that we really don't fucking care?

My position has nothing to do with a favorite actress of mine suffering a similar problem not too long ago and subsequently shut herself off form the internet for months until it died down. But it goes to show you, they aren't ALL publicity stunts.

You had me at "pants lobster."

It's a fair question to ask Sir Punctuation. I think the answer goes two fold though. On the one hand, I don't feel like I've, personally, given Weiner a treatment much different than I would give a Republican. I'll make a few jokes, and maybe question his/her judgment. (Because how do you think you're going to keep this private forever?) On the other hand, many Republicans try to position themselves as voices of moral authority, or speaking on behalf of a moral authority. It seems hypocritical, for instance, to denigrate certain sexual activities you don't approve of, but then engage in something that's generally considered worse.