You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love Cast at Savage.loaf.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Or actually this is what happens when not so nice people or dense people, mostly male people,

think their things are so nice that everyone wants to see them.

That's probably too generous a take on the unsolicited dick pick.

And that's of course the thing that I'm talking about here, the unsolicited dick pick.

Because most guys who send unsolicited dick picks aren't trying to be nice.

According to a study published in the Journal of Sex Research, most men who send dick picks

aren't trying to be assholes either. They're trying to get laid or get dirty picks in return.

The study looking into this, which researchers whole areaiously titled,

I'll show you mine so you'll show me yours, motivations and personality variables and photographic

exhibitionism. That study looked into the motives of unsolicited dick picks senders and found

that way more than half were hoping to elicit a positive response, get a pick in return in most

cases or get laid. Only 16% were motivated by a desire to do harm, to annoy or harass the recipient

about dick pick they sent. This research also found that men who send unsolicited dick picks tend

to be younger, more narcissistic and sexist. When you think about it, the unsolicited dick pick was

inevitable. We should have seen those things coming when the dis-inhibiting aspects of anonymity

combined with brand new smartphone technology and the age-old attitudes so prevalent among straight

men that they are entitled to women's attention and women's bodies, including women's eyeballs.

Hashtag.all straight men and hashtag gaymendo.that shit too. Hashtag all the time.

But it lands different when gay men do it to other gay men. And there's research to back that up too.

In another study published in the Journal of Sex Research again, a study with a slightly less

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