I can only hope that’s as bad as it gets.
so going by some peoples criteria being mooned in a pic or someone mooning you should be a registerable sex offense also ?
I disapprove of ass-waggers and that bothers you. The end.
Maybe he’ll turn into an anal-retentive Puritan hellbent on destroying lives for minor errors in judgement among fraternizers.
Why is it, if you don’t mind explaining, that you are so tenderly sympathetic to the plight of flashers?
according to the psychologists, deliberately exposing your penis to strangers in this way is an aggressive sexual act committed against non-consenting individuals and is a sign of a serious problem. It’s not a “prank.” It’s called exhibitionism. It’s not a victimless crime, so it is a crime. In this case, there were a MANY victims.
“There is no consensus on the cause of exhibitionism and causal factors appear to depend on the individual person with each case being different. We do know that In the U.S., about 50% of all exhibitionists are married and that typically a male is the exhibitionist and the victim is typically a woman, a child, or an unsuspecting stranger.”
Butt-Head voice:
Heh heh heh, they said “69”. Heh heh heh.
IME the term “flasher” is used for someone who confronts others with sexual acts, most often an older guy who masturbates in front of women in lonely places.
Some punks who think it hilarious to surreptitiously bomb a football group photo by getting the flaccid penis of one of them into the shot is not the same thing.
There are any number of people in this thread who are ready to declare this is not a joke and not a prank, but really the emphatic nature of their assertions are just designed to cover the fact that it *was *a joke or prank. There is no basis whatever for asserting the contrary. When I was the age of those youths, lots of my friends would have thought something like this was a hoot, although mooning was more their style. They were all perverts, right? They all went on to become sex offenders.
Actually, wait a moment, no they didn’t. They went on to become completely normal people.
We are as you say never going to agree on this. You are very, very concerned about nudity for reasons that no doubt make sense to you. I’m just not. That is not to say that I am unconcerned about aggressive non-consensual sexual acts. But I see no need to conflate that with basic nudity. The interesting thing is why you do see the need.
I suspect it’s because while you have a deep seated unease about breaching societal norms concerning nudity, and want those who engage in it to be punished, but you know that you can’t really justify that because of the lack of obvious and unreasonable harm to others that nudity causes. So you have to pretend it’s something it’s not to make your desire to punish fit with the broad ideas of individual freedom to which we all subscribe (some of us more sincerely than others, I suspect). That’s why when a youth gets his flaccid penis into a football photo you have to pretend he’s engaging in sex. That’s why Manda JO has to suggest I’m OK with a flasher “stroking himself” when that wasn’t the subject under discussion.
I mooned people once, at probably the ripe old age of 18. My co-ed, adult softball team was at a state tournament and we’d all been having a bit too much fun over a lunch in between games. The leader of our merry band, our female coach, thought it would be hilarious if the group that was all riding around in the back of a pick-up would flash the other bunch in the car. Right outside Denny’s, no less. As such, I’m know more than just our team saw this, but as it was in 1986, passerby just rolled their eyes or honked or guffawed and moved on.
I’m a woman, now 48, and ages for us ranged from late teens to early 50s. Obviously, I haven’t stayed in touch with everyone, but to the best of my knowledge, not a single person has gone on to a life of perversion. No one has waggled any weenies, no one has pleasured themselves were they could ‘accidentally’ be found, no peeping toms, nothing. We all went on to lead more or less respectable lives.
So, although I can see the viewpoint expressed by some in this thread, I also realize this was probably just a prank by a none-too-bright jock, egged on by his buds. The kind that does understand, yet, the full weight of the consequences of their actions and only begins to realize their impact on others as they mature. A lot. Give him the yearbooks of those offended and either make him pay to replace them or something comparable, then perhaps a class on sensitivity training.
Otherwise, much ado about a tempest in a teapot.
Yet. You will do. It’s inevitable. You have a sex offenderish mindset.
I know. I have no doubt that by my 50th birthday, I’ll have assaulted an apple pie in the bake goods aisle of Walmart, for all and sundry to see. Then they’ll never let me head up the rummage sale at church again. I’m so ashamed.
Only at the Dope would we have people arguing that a man who showed his penis to unwilling people isn’t really the type of man who would show his penis to unwilling people.
But that’s not what anyone is saying, except maybe you.
Honest question. If the head of the penis were visible and the kid were not 18, would possession on the yearbook be illegal as it is child pornography?
No, everybody is saying things like his friends put him up to it or he made a mistake. You may be different, but my friends could never put me up to doing anything I didn’t actually want to do. You may be different, but I have never mistakenly pulled my pants down and displayed my genitals to a camera.
People are what they do.
Then why have I never become an exhibitionist? Re-offended? Why was mine a one-off at 18 and never again? People can make really stupid, ignorant decisions, yet reform. Believe it or not, that actually does happen. Not everyone is a true crime novel waiting to happen.
You are an exhibitionist. You wanted to expose yourself and you did. Apparently you just didn’t enjoy it enough to do it again.
In your world, should faithfool be a registered sex offender?
LOL
That would depend on whether **faithfool’s ** first tentative steps into exhibitionism met the legal requirements to be placed on that list. In my state:
Not all exhibitionism is indecent exposure. My disapproval of exhibitionists, however troubling it may be to you, doesn’t carry the force of law.