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Although women, non-binary people and transgender men may engage in sexting and sending genital images, dick pics are commonly understood to be a cisgender male activity. Motivations for sending a dick pic vary widely, Like sexting in general, the sending and receiving of solicited dick pics is common among adults; motivated by positive factors like relationship enhancement, it is linked to positive psychological outcomes. A demonstration of masculinity (particularly toxic masculinity), it is indicative of narcissism. A 2019 study in the Journal of Sex Research demonstrates that senders of unsolicited dick pics tend to have narcissistic personality traits. Some senders say that they are looking for admiration of their virility, or think of the act as flirtation. Behavioral problems due to psychological trauma may contribute to narcissism. and hedonism. The vast majority of victims view unsolicited dick pics as offensive. According to researchers, men tend to overestimate female sexual interest in them for evolutionary reasons; women tend to underestimate men's sexual interest in them. This overestimation (sexual overperception bias) may cause a man to feel entitled to positive feedback from a recipienttypically a womanand assume that the sexually aroused recipient will reciprocate. Australian psychologist Andrea Woling published a 2017 study saying that dick pics are a primitive way to interest an interlocutor, get acquainted, and indicate one's intentions. Surveys of men who sent dick pics indicate that most expected to receive intimate photos in return. Dick pics may also be a form of Internet trolling, with women saying that unfamiliar users sent them an unsolicited dick pic after they refused to meet or ignored a greeting. Forty-four percent of men who have sex with men (MSM) reported being "entertained" and 41% felt "curious" after receiving a dick pic; 25 percent of MSM reported a negative reaction. Data suggests that MSM feel pressured to suppress their negative feelings about unsolicited dick pics; the same study found that 7.5 percent of heterosexual women and 12 percent of bisexual women reported feeling aroused by at least one unsolicited dick pic they received. == Prevalence ==

According to a 2016 U.S. survey, 49 percent of women had received at least one unsolicited photo of male sex organs. According to Freudian psychoanalyst Caroline Ledu, these men unconsciously seek to "arouse anguish" by confronting their (female) victims with what they feel their bodies lack. Social networks (Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat) and dating sites (Tinder and, particularly, Chatroulette and Omegle) are the most-used vectors. According to a 2011 Boston survey, one-quarter of webcams are pointed at penises. An October 2018 IFOP survey found that 42 percent of female users of dating sites had received a dick pic there; the percentage increased to 63 percent of women aged 18 to 24. A 2020 US study by Marcotte et al. asked 2,045 women and 298 bisexual and gay men about receiving unsolicited penis photos and their experiences with them. Of those who had received a dick pic (49.6 percent of women and 80.5 percent of men), over 90 percent were unsolicited. Women (regardless of sexual orientation) reacted mainly negatively, with feelings of disgust (50 percent) and disrespect (46 percent). Twenty-six percent of women said that they responded positively to unsolicited dick pics, and 7.6 percent of women (7.5 percent heterosexual and 11.9 percent bisexual) reported being sexually aroused. Of the men, 71 percent said they reacted positively to unsolicited penis photos. "Entertained" (44 percent) and "curious" (40.6 percent) were the most-frequent choices, and 33.6 percent reported sexual arousal. Twenty-five percent of the men reacted negatively to unsolicited dick pics. The study found that younger women and women who had received unwanted advances from men were more likely to react negatively to dick pics. provides for a €750 fine or anyone who sends an unsolicited indecent message. Repeated practice will be considered harassment, punishable by two to three years of imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 to 45,000 euros depending on the age of the victim. In 2019, a Roanne court sentenced a repeat offender to three years in prison after complaints from 49 victims from 12 to 90 years old. In Texas, the sender of an unsolicited dick pic is subject to a $500 fine. , Finland was preparing a bill introducing a penalty of up to six months in prison. According to Article 240, paragraph 2 of the Dutch criminal code, sending an inappropriate dick pic is a sex offense. In 2018, a man in the Netherlands who sent digital dick pics was sentenced by a court to 80 hours of community service (half of which was conditional) and to pay €372 to the victim. In 2022, the Netherlands asserted that the unsolicited sending of a dick pic was punishable by two months in prison or a fine of up to €9,000. Unsolicited sending is a criminal offense in Germany, according to § 184 (unauthorized distribution of pornographic material) of the criminal code. The act is punishable by imprisonment of up to one year or a fine. == Consequences for senders ==

Risks are involved in creating and sending dick pics; sending these images without consent can have legal consequences if the recipient reports sexual harassment. The image can also take on a life of its own and pop up in unexpected places; American artist Whitney Bell devoted a photo exhibition to dick pics she had received. An innocently intended image can also have adverse consequences; in 2019, Jeff Bezos was blackmailed with images intended for his mistress from his hacked phone. Twenty-three percent of people who sent dick pics reported sharing them with at least three other people. Media Due to the popularity of in January 2022, the unsolicited reception of such images has attracted considerable attention in the Netherlands. Marc Overmars resigned as director of football affairs at Ajax because of allegations which included the sending of dick pics. Politicians At least two politicians have been convicted of transmitting dick pics: former congressman and New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (sentenced in 2017 to 21 months in prison for sending sex photos to women between 2011 and 2013, including one minor) and Le Havre, France, Mayor Luc Lemonnier, who was forced to resign in 2019 after several women reported receiving dick pics from him since 2011. == Reactions ==

Some women respond with insults or other people's dick pics. Social network pages ridicule such behavior, collecting witty responses to dick pics. Other creative responses include: • Denouncing the activity's intrusive nature; American artist Whitney Bell staged installations in which tens of dick pics decorate the walls of an apartment, like paintings. • New Zealander Madeleine Holden has created a site where she evaluates and rates the "photographic quality" of the dick pics she receives. Combating and preventing dick pics There is no single algorithm for prohibiting or combating dick pics. Many social networks prohibit the publication of pornographic material, but the ban does not apply to private messages. A complaint about the user can be filed with technical support, but sanctions would be applied after the picture is received; an offensive user can create a new account, and continue sending dick pics from there. In 2019, faced with the inaction of major social networks (which would prove, if they censored private messages, that they were accessing their users' personal data), In 2020, the dating app Once implemented a similar artificial intelligence algorithm to detect photos of penises and turn them into kittens. Meta is reportedly developing an algorithm allowing a user to immediately block and delete intimate messages using photo-recognition technology, but by February 2022 it had been unsuccessful. == See also ==