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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: the social and legal repercussions for unsolicited dick pics sent to strangers should be no different to flashing people in public.

We recoil at flashers but there is more of a tendency to dismiss or even laugh at dick pics. Just because it's online doesn't make it fundamentally any more excusable. We see flashers as mentally ill, dangerous people in trenchcoats but people who send unsolicited dick pics have been normalised to a greater extent.

I suppose there is the chance of it being accidentally sent to the wrong person instead of a consenting recipient. But there is also the chance of someone accidentally having a clothing malfunction in public. Both cases can be assessed by looking at the context (and in the case of the dick pic, whether there was a willing recipient waiting at the time).

I think society has become numb to behaviour online that would be utterly inexcusable in any other context and this is a clear example.
gpt
Sending a dick pic can be a consensual, private thing between adults. It avoids the public sphere entirely. Flashing someone can be a consensual thing, but it is by definition not private. It intersects the public sphere by definition.

The *necessarily* public element of flashing someone demands a different response. *Most* dick pics are unwanted, but we cannot infringe on the consensual, private activity of adults by declaring that *all* of them should be punish-able.