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"  Q: Why do guys like Anthony Weiner get off on sending racy pictures of themselves to women they don&amp;#039;t even know? I have no idea why an adult man would send an unsolicited picture of his penis to a woman he&amp;#039;s never met, in the same way I don&amp;#039;t understand why flashers feel the need to flash. But I do know that the Internet makes it way too easy to broadcast bad ideas, bad judgment, and poor impulse control. For instance: Right after the bizarro press conference in which America learned the true identity of Weiner&amp;#039;s disembodied penis, I decided it would be funny to start sticking things in my underwear, take pictures, and post them to my Facebook page. I&amp;#039;m talking easily identifiable objects like milk cartons, boots, my cat. I thought it was a hilarious idea because I have the sense of humor and impulse control of a twelve-year-old boy. Then I thought, Hell, why not post them on my blog at redbookmag.com? My wife Karel was at work, so she couldn&amp;#039;t stop me. But thankfully, my REDBOOK editor told me this was a bad idea...a very bad idea. (Mind you, I had already downloaded 2 pictures of the Twilight: Breaking Dawn DVD stuffed in my underwear; I just happened to mention my idea to her before clicking the button.) Perhaps Anthony Weiner just needed to listen to his inner REDBOOK editor before taking pictures of his junk and sending them to semi-random women. I have been out of the dating/pursuing scene for a looooong time, but I vaguely remember that NOT showing my penis to women I was interested in (unless a sexual encounter was imminent) was an essential part of getting women to return that interest (and not pepper spray me). I can&amp;#039;t imagine trying to pick up a woman at a bar and thinking, &amp;quot;You know what would really seal the deal here? Showing her my dick!&amp;quot; I guess I was pursuing women in an age when it took a bad plan a long time to develop. If I had wanted to do something creepy and stupid like send Karel a picture of my penis after our first date, it would have taken at least an hour to develop the film, and sometime during that hour I probably would have come to my senses. I like to believe that Anthony Weiner woke up on the morning he took those pictures and said to himself, &amp;quot;Anthony, you are not going to take any pictures of your middling erection today and send them to a woman you&amp;#039;ve never met face to face.&amp;quot; Maybe he kept that promise for a couple hours; maybe he only made it 15 minutes. All I know is that, eventually \u2014 click \u2014 the Internet made it too easy to keep his demons at bay. My advice to Weiner: If you can&amp;#039;t handle the temptation of your smart phone, get rid of it, because it&amp;#039;s making you look like a dumbass. Now I&amp;#039;ve got some questions for you guys: Do women ever find this attractive? Is there ever a moment where you excitedly call your girlfriend and say, &amp;quot;He finally sent me a Weiner-shot! Now I know he&amp;#039;s serious!&amp;quot; Do women send disembodied crotch and boob shots to guys they&amp;#039;re interested in? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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