Voyeurs & Exhibitionists

I read the most amazing thing in The Chronicle today, “Six percent of Americans over 18 have sent a nude or near-nude image of themselves to someone else and 15 percent have received one, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.” I’ll have to think about this more, but off hand, it would appear that on average, every person who sends a naked (or nearly so) picture of themselves, sends one to 2.5 people. Does this mean people are 2.5 times as likely to be voyeurs (perhaps unwilling ones) as exhibitionists?

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3 thoughts on “Voyeurs & Exhibitionists

  1. I cannot believe that six percent of peiople have sent nude or nearly nude photos of themselves to someone, that statstic blows my mind!

  2. Ben: I know what you mean, but in my experience there is a certain percentage of the people doing and thinking all kinds of weird things. According to Ben Smith, 18% of Americans believe that the sun circles the earth. The article is here:

    http://www.politico.com/blo

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