# Have you ever taken photos of your genitals and sent them to someone else? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244 "2011-06-12T20:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/21 "2011-06-12T22:52:58Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Also, I think a reasonable distinction can be made between distributing such images to people with whom one has already established a sexual relationship, and to people one has not actually met. For the purposes of this poll, however, no such distinction is made. Internet stranger or Significant Other, if you sent pictures, it’s all the same. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/22 "2011-06-12T22:57:53Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Fuck no. I’m a guy. Why any guy would think sending a woman a picture of his junk is a good idea is beyond me. Let me say too, that if you do so there is a good chance all her friends will get a look at that picture, and there may or may not be comments (good and bad). I have done so, with a lover who was long distance away and on his way back to me. He did the same for me. And yes my BFF has seen those pics and I’ve seen pics of her lovers too (with their permission, not passed around generally). Usually for comparison purposes and curiosity. But if the pictures were unsolicited in the first place, then all bets are off. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/23 "2011-06-12T22:58:17Z")
I’m not ashamed to admit, I sent a full nude to my exboyfriend. However, I claimed the angle made it show it cut off at my neck. So, I can always deny it was me. Unless, the people know what my former room used to look like but anyone who did (my mom and my bestfriend) wouldn’t rat me out. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/24 "2011-06-12T23:01:13Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I hope that it was done the refined, dignified way, with Ketel One and Oxycontin rather than the trailer-trash method, using Popov and generic Tylenol 3. Actually it was Everclear and Robitussen. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/25 "2011-06-12T23:03:24Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Actually it was Everclear and Robitussen. Ah, a Yale man. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/26 "2011-06-12T23:12:03Z")
About 15 years ago I took a picture of my ‘junk’ and sent it to someone via a local BBS network. I did this using the only computer at work (after hours) and apparently forgot to delete the photo. My boss later found it, deleted it, and then about a year later told me the story of how he found the photo and immediately recognized me by one of my thumbs. (I have distinct pollicals, long story.) More recently, I posted a photo of just my scrotum on a forum for medical reasons. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/27 "2011-06-12T23:16:29Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Fuck no. I’m a guy. Why any guy would think sending a woman a picture of his junk is a good idea is beyond me. Because she asked I have to say, when I sent or received photos it was during a long distance part of a sexual relationship and I have never shown them to anyone. I wouldn’t send them to someone on the internet who I’d never met ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/28 "2011-06-12T23:47:21Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > Because she asked. Yep. The only woman who has ever received photos of my junk is my wife, back before she was. The photo was actually more of a body shot, but the junk was visible. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/29 "2011-06-12T23:58:39Z")
I have a photo of my gentles hanging over the fireplace. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/30 "2011-06-13T00:31:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > For the purposes of this poll, however, no such distinction is made. Internet stranger or Significant Other, if you sent pictures, it’s all the same. Fine, your poll. Let’s just note that whatever the _yes_ vote ends up being here, the number of people who have done _what Weiner did_ is going to be smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/31 "2011-06-13T00:37:58Z")
> [@Dave\_Enn](#): > > I guess I’m kind of a fuddy-duddy, but, > > WHAT COULD DOING THIS POSSIBLY ACCOMPLISH? [\SHOUT] In my case, it led directly to sex. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/32 "2011-06-13T00:52:42Z")
Oh hell yes! Way back in the time that the only way to do it was either Polaroids or the office copy machine! More recently a text of my nipple…there was a who lotta OMG’s when that text was opened! Fun times! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/33 "2011-06-13T01:20:41Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > Because she asked I will say, that is pretty much the only acceptable reason I could think of. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/34 "2011-06-13T01:23:24Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > I am still wondering why you ever thought it could be a good move. I’d be as likely to score a girl by sending her photos of my anus than I would sending her photos of my junk. > Unless you’ve got the most beautiful dick in the world (and I would need some cites or pics to back that up), how could that plan ever work? I think you missed the punchline. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/35 "2011-06-13T01:35:58Z")
Wow what a bunch of fuddie duddies in the poll. I’ve send them out all the time. Then again, the circumstances I’m sending them out are when I’m responding to adult personal ads (like off of adultfriendfinder or the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist), so they’re already expecting something like that. Also available upon request. Now, I would never send them to someone in order to woo them in a regular dating situation. That’s a great way to get mocked. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/36 "2011-06-13T01:54:44Z")
Does it count if the person you’re sending it to is the one who took the picture(s)? ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/37 "2011-06-13T02:11:17Z")
I voted but Imma not going to tell you how. Heh. Watching the Tonys and they’re doing “Anything Goes”. How appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/38 "2011-06-13T02:15:20Z")
Yeah, I’ve done it. Only if requested. It’s different for girls, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/39 "2011-06-13T03:41:41Z")
Does Xeroxing my butt count? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taken-photos-of-your-genitals-and-sent-them-to-someone-else/585244/40 "2011-06-13T03:44:19Z")
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