Dick pic
A dick pic is an image or photograph of a penis, usually erect,[1] sent electronically (e.g. on the internet, by SMS, or by close-range file sharing).
[10][11] 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.
A 2019 study in the Journal of Sex Research demonstrates that senders of unsolicited dick pics tend to have narcissistic personality traits.
Rejection and criticism may lead to retaliatory abusive and aggressive behavior as the receiver compensates for the power difference and does not validate the sender's dominance or masculinity.
[5][21][22] Australian psychologist Andrea Woling published a 2017 study[23] saying that dick pics are a primitive way to interest an interlocutor, get acquainted, and indicate one's intentions.
[26] 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.
[19] Ovidie said in 2019 that almost all French high-school girls had received a dick pic from a social network (particularly Snapchat), and exhibitionists had adopted new technology to shock and dominate.
[29] 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.
[25] In French law, the practice can be considered as an act of exhibitionism punishable by one year of imprisonment and a €15,000 fine in accordance with article 232-22 of the penal code.
[11] According to Article 240, paragraph 2 of the Dutch criminal code, sending an inappropriate dick pic is a sex offense.
[35] 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.
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.
[41][42] Due to the popularity of BOOS: This is The Voice [nl] in January 2022, the unsolicited reception of such images has attracted considerable attention in the Netherlands.
[43] Marc Overmars resigned as director of football affairs at Ajax because of allegations which included the sending of dick pics.
[44][45] 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)[46] 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.
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),[19] web developer Kelsey Bressler created a Twitter application capable of blocking 95% of dick pics using artificial intelligence.
[53] 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.
