As an image with intent, the dick pic is a linguistic gesture; the man who sends it says that you, the recipient, are the object of his desire. This gesture fails when it doesn’t conjugate, when the sender wants it to mean seduction but the receiver reads it as confusion (a bad photograph) or violence (unsolicited). Frozen in time, the poorly photographed or unwelcome dick ongoingly reveals its idiosyncrasies, discolorations, asymmetries, and other inadequacies one wouldn’t necessarily obsess over in mutually experienced space-time.

RADIATION, FILM, TRAUMA, THE ELEMENTS: to expose is a one-way verb. The nuclear reactor knows nothing of the bodies it degrades. Light is invulnerable to the celluloid it stains. The man who exposes himself does so without empathy. There’s no unseeing a man’s penis, and even the most enthusiastic of dick lovers (hello) isn’t always interested in looking. Many men don’t seem to understand this, or care. This needs queering.

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