Speak for yourself

Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy.

We polled some women. Really, they would like to see . . .

“I would like a photo of a made bed,” says Kathryn Roberts, who works at a law firm in Washington. “I would take rose petals, but I want them on top of a made bed.” And not that fake kind of made, either, where the comforter is smooth but the sheets are a jumbled mess.

“Or laundry,” adds her friend Andrea Neurohr.

“Folded laundry,” elaborates Roberts. “Maybe in a wicker basket.”

Ha ha ha ha! Get it? because women aren't interested in that icky sex stuff. Men are objectively not sexy.

"[I]f you look at the empirical literature, it does indicate that the majority of women are not as aroused by pictures of” naked man-parts, [according to Marta Meana, a renowned psychologist].

Of course not. We prefer curtains billowing in soft focus, perhaps with an ocean gently lapping at the shore.



Of course, what's equally ridiculous about the article is that it seems to be of the view that when men randomly send photos of their genitals to women they are not dating, it's intended as a seduction technique - instead of, you know, harassment. Which is why it's not the same thing as getting such a picture from someone you are, in fact, dating, possibly as a technologically-enhanced form of phone sex.

So I said I wasn't going to post more about L'Affaire Weiner

But then CJR posted the best Weiner headlines, which includes this headline from Gawker:



And I caved. Because I may never stop laughing.

My view of this is: I wouldn't believe anything Breitbart promoted if he told me water was wet. The only person who saw the tweet is a known conservative activist who has been obsessed with Weiner for months, who has been harassing the recipient of the tweet since before it was sent, and who was tweeting about a potential sex scandal involving Weiner for weeks. And now, there's this whole thing, in which the guy indicates "we" have more pictures. And there's Weiner's bizarre media performance, in which he says he didn't send the tweet but can't deny that it's a picture of him. Put it all together, and it spells that the photo is legit, but Weiner didn't send it - his own stash of personal lewd photos was hacked by someone else. And frankly, if he's not sending them unsolicited to random twitter followers, I don't give a damn what he keeps on his phone for his own enjoyment.

And now I really will stop posting about this, at least until there's some sort of definitive conclusion.