is sending uninvited pictures of your genitalia to someone online indecent exposure?

I was reading this old post Can I be charged with indecent exposure if I stay on my own private property? - The Straight Dope and thinking it would be awesome to update it with the answer to this question. Since, like, 2016 and all. :smiley: It could maybe be relevant to a few folks. :smack:

Best User Name/Thread Title combo ever.

Depends. Are you male or female?

Why? Do you want to see it?

Um, let’s just say guy… i’m er, asking for “a friend”.

Is this “friend” located a little below your belly button?

Does your camera have macro capability?

I think the article clearly answers your question, check the local jurisdictions in both places. If one should do this they can expect to be a registered sex offender for the rest of their life. Here, we have the qualifier of “the intent to cause sexual arousal”, so we can drop our draws in front of a doctor to get a hernia examination. Sending a pix of your ding-a-ling uninvited, that’s just plain rude and profoundly indecent.

It is clearly indecent, and it is clearly exposure. I think I’d defer to an attorney about whether it is indecent exposure in the legal sense.

Either way, don’t do it, because really do I have to say why?

https://www.change.org/p/hannah-beth-jackson-update-ca-penal-code-314-to-explicitly-classify-unsolicited-obscene-selfies-as-indecent-exposure

Someday, the laws will be better.

https://www.facebook.com/EndVirtualFlashing/

True story: I’ve actually sent a picture of my genitals one time as a joke to an online forum one time, and I haven’t gotten a subpoena yet. Course I’m sure that doing it on the internet (albeit idiotic and surprising ballsy- pardon the puns), jurisdiction is going to be hard to come by. And before someone starts yelling at me, the forum was in an adult-oriented sub-forum, with links to other genitals and sex positions, so what I was doing was legal, in that sub-forum anyways.