# New shirtless Weiner pics emerge that he's been sending to attractive women - Is he insane? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539 "2011-06-06T20:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/21 "2011-06-07T19:21:29Z")
Sending photos of your junk to stragers on the internet is jouvenile, and also pretty stupid for a public figure. I guess he wasn’t thinking with his head. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/22 "2011-06-07T19:43:02Z")
Jackknifed Juggernaut: > [@](#): > > While I’m sure you’re upset about this, I don’t believe that his lack of judgment in one area of his life necessarily reflects his professional judgment. Think Bill Clinton. I’m no great fan of Bill Clinton, and this is a huge part of it. Although to give credit where it’s due, at least Clinton was smart enough to only be risking his career for actual head. What Weiner gets out of this bizarre behavior, I have no idea. Surely if he’s trying to pick up a girl, he can, with minimal effort, find one who will go out with him without requiring pictures first. Unless he’s a genuine exhibitionist rather than a clumsy pick-up artist. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/23 "2011-06-07T20:29:30Z")
Anyone else finding the humor in the fact his wife is staying with him? That really surprised me…until I heard what she did for a living. She’s an aide to Hillary Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/24 "2011-06-07T20:38:27Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > I can’t believe this guy is my Congressman. > > He sure won’t be for much longer. What an IDIOT!!! Leave aside whatever moral issues are involved (his religion, which is supposed to be Orthodox Judaism like mine; his marriage), how stupid does he have to be to jeopardize a career he worked his whole life for by doing something like this? I realize that I’m a bit more prudish than your average SDMB member, but…sending a picture of your underwear to some girl is standard courtship behavior these days??? If sex or love is worth risking a career over, wouldn’t it still make sense to not expose his privates until they’re actually going to get down to business? > > Seriously, I don’t want someone this stupid repesenting me. If he’s really that dumb (and he must be), he’s probably been getting figuratively fucked over by other members of Congress on our “behalf” for years. I guess this latest issue is just his way of wanting to make that more literal. Yeah, that’s pretty much my opinion. And I would have loved to be in the room when Hillary and Mrs. Weiner saw each other for the first time after this–their faces must have been very expressive. I hear that Bill Clinton officiated at the wedding last year. The story just keeps adding one ironic detail after another… ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/25 "2011-06-07T22:21:05Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > I don’t think it’s as easy as it looks. Most people are aware of where the cameras are located on phones.. Actually it is. I had this discussion with a guy I knew a while back. I easily took pics of him without him ever knowing they were being taken. And that’s just with a cell phone. I go past a spy store on my way to the gym and they have cameras AND videos in pens, on watches, on pin, on mp3 players (looks like a Sansa Clip). ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/26 "2011-06-07T23:35:56Z")
Who on earth finds photos like that enticing? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/27 "2011-06-08T01:35:18Z")
The problem is not who finds that enticing, the problem is who _thinks_ that’s enticing. Drunk guys, sex addicts, idiots, all of the above. Guys see nekkid women/parts and get all hot and bothered, and think that women react the same, but if you’re not drunk, really horny or stupid, then you remember they don’t and just beat off to some porn. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/28 "2011-06-08T02:42:51Z")
There’s an [interesting article](http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/a-candid-and-prophetic-interview-with-weiner/?smid=tw-cityroom&seid=auto) in the New York Times about an interview with Weiner and Twitter. > [@](#): > > Mr. Weiner, Democrat of New York, was charming and engaging, and he spoke frankly candidly — and, in retrospect, prophetically — about his Twitter persona. “I know the risk,” he said. “I’ve seen enough stories about the risk, and I’ve kind of kicked the line of the risk a couple of times.” Looks like it kicked the like of risk a little too hard. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/29 "2011-06-08T07:48:34Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > Guys see nekkid women/parts and get all hot and bothered, and think that women react the same, but if you’re not drunk, really horny or stupid, then you remember they don’t and just beat off to some porn. So that’s why they never write me back. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/30 "2011-06-08T12:49:11Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > So that’s why they never write me back. ☹ Don’t feel so bad, if you were famous, they would sell the pic to ABC news. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539/31 "2011-06-08T15:52:54Z")
Sending picture of yourself online is so alien to me, that I can not relate to Weiner. When a politician does it, he is asking for trouble. He had to know it could not end well. It is not a poor decision. It is more than that. He had to be getting some kind of psychological payoff. That is what worries me. There is something not quite right about him to have done that. So where next does this flaw evince itself? I lean a little to the left and thought he was doing a great job of fighting the Republican glacier that drives right over people over in its gathering of money and power. There is nobody else that will stand up like him. But I do not feel comfortable with him anymore. He is not the person i thought he was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-shirtless-weiner-pics-emerge-that-hes-been-sending-to-attractive-women-is-he-insane/584539.md?page=1)