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Authors: Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
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Anyone who has seen a koteka , the colorful two-foot-long penis cap worn by men in Papua New Guinea, can easily believe that men have inherited our primate cousins’ attentiveness to the penis.
But men aren’t satisfied by checking out other men’s penises. They also like to flaunt their own. Historically, male exhibitionism has been considered a mental disorder. If that is the case, the Internet suggests we are a planet of mentally deranged men. Chat Roulette is a Web site that allows users with a webcam to randomly connect to other people around the world. Once you enter Chat Roulette, you see whatever the other person has chosen to place in front of their webcam. It might be a party, a cute kitten, an old man with a beard, or—very rarely—a bored teenage girl. One blogger recorded what he saw on 1,276 consecutive Chat Roulette sessions: 298 webcams (about one in four) were aimed at a penis. Another blogger created software to track the global locations of penis sightings on Chat Roulette: ChatRouletteCock Map.com reveals that Europe, Brazil, and the American east coast are dense with Internet exhibitionism.
On Fantasti.cc, 23 percent of the male users use an image of their penis as their avatar, while another 13 percent used a penis from a porn clip. In comparison, 5 percent of the female users use an image of a vagina. On reddit’s heterosexual Gone Wild forum, where users are free to post NC-17 pictures of themselves, 123 of the 345 self-posted male images (about 35 percent) consist of close-ups of penises.
Though encountering a male exhibitionist on the subway or in the city park can be frightening and unsettling, clinical psychiatrists do not consider them dangerous. Exhibitionists rarely follow up their lewd displays with any attempt at contacting the women they’ve exposed themselves to. Often, the urge to exhibit oneself manifests as an inexplicable compulsion, rather than a conscious intention to dominate or scare a woman. “The act was more magical than sexual, a ritual to restore that all-important sense of power that the defeats of life had temporarily destroyed,” explained Lance Rentzel, former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, recounting the incident that got him arrested. “On this day, for some reason, I needed someone to play with me in a childish game I was making up. Look at me, look at me. Look at what I’ve got. I sat in the car and they came over and I exposed myself. It took maybe 10 seconds, then I drove off, strangely relieved.”
Perhaps men are tapping into an ancient display mechanism we share with other primates, similar to the way girls’ enjoyment of brushing other girls’ hair may reflect our primate grooming mechanisms. It’s true that some women are enchanted by a substantial phallus. But for men, a large penis is always welcome.
AN ANIMATED LADY
One way to get a better sense of the visual cues that trigger male desire is to consider erotic art designed for men. An artist is not constrained by gravity or biology but is free to fashion impossible bodies limited only by his imagination. If a particular style of erotic art becomes popular across diverse cultures, this may be a good indication that it is activating men’s innate desire software. With the growth of the Internet, one type of erotic art has risen to unchallenged dominance across all wired nations: Japanese anime .
A more relaxed judicial reinterpretation of obscenity laws in the 1990s released the floodgates on Japanese animated erotica, an art form that traces its roots back to nineteenth-century woodblock printings. With the advent of the Internet, Japanese anime quickly spread throughout the world. Japanese anime (sometimes known as hentai ) is the most searched for type of erotic animation or erotic art on search engines in the United States, Russia, France, Thailand, Brazil, and Australia, suggesting that it is highly effective in exploiting men’s visual cues. ( Animation , including
But men aren’t satisfied by checking out other men’s penises. They also like to flaunt their own. Historically, male exhibitionism has been considered a mental disorder. If that is the case, the Internet suggests we are a planet of mentally deranged men. Chat Roulette is a Web site that allows users with a webcam to randomly connect to other people around the world. Once you enter Chat Roulette, you see whatever the other person has chosen to place in front of their webcam. It might be a party, a cute kitten, an old man with a beard, or—very rarely—a bored teenage girl. One blogger recorded what he saw on 1,276 consecutive Chat Roulette sessions: 298 webcams (about one in four) were aimed at a penis. Another blogger created software to track the global locations of penis sightings on Chat Roulette: ChatRouletteCock Map.com reveals that Europe, Brazil, and the American east coast are dense with Internet exhibitionism.
On Fantasti.cc, 23 percent of the male users use an image of their penis as their avatar, while another 13 percent used a penis from a porn clip. In comparison, 5 percent of the female users use an image of a vagina. On reddit’s heterosexual Gone Wild forum, where users are free to post NC-17 pictures of themselves, 123 of the 345 self-posted male images (about 35 percent) consist of close-ups of penises.
Though encountering a male exhibitionist on the subway or in the city park can be frightening and unsettling, clinical psychiatrists do not consider them dangerous. Exhibitionists rarely follow up their lewd displays with any attempt at contacting the women they’ve exposed themselves to. Often, the urge to exhibit oneself manifests as an inexplicable compulsion, rather than a conscious intention to dominate or scare a woman. “The act was more magical than sexual, a ritual to restore that all-important sense of power that the defeats of life had temporarily destroyed,” explained Lance Rentzel, former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, recounting the incident that got him arrested. “On this day, for some reason, I needed someone to play with me in a childish game I was making up. Look at me, look at me. Look at what I’ve got. I sat in the car and they came over and I exposed myself. It took maybe 10 seconds, then I drove off, strangely relieved.”
Perhaps men are tapping into an ancient display mechanism we share with other primates, similar to the way girls’ enjoyment of brushing other girls’ hair may reflect our primate grooming mechanisms. It’s true that some women are enchanted by a substantial phallus. But for men, a large penis is always welcome.
AN ANIMATED LADY
One way to get a better sense of the visual cues that trigger male desire is to consider erotic art designed for men. An artist is not constrained by gravity or biology but is free to fashion impossible bodies limited only by his imagination. If a particular style of erotic art becomes popular across diverse cultures, this may be a good indication that it is activating men’s innate desire software. With the growth of the Internet, one type of erotic art has risen to unchallenged dominance across all wired nations: Japanese anime .
A more relaxed judicial reinterpretation of obscenity laws in the 1990s released the floodgates on Japanese animated erotica, an art form that traces its roots back to nineteenth-century woodblock printings. With the advent of the Internet, Japanese anime quickly spread throughout the world. Japanese anime (sometimes known as hentai ) is the most searched for type of erotic animation or erotic art on search engines in the United States, Russia, France, Thailand, Brazil, and Australia, suggesting that it is highly effective in exploiting men’s visual cues. ( Animation , including
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