“Sexting”, “cyberflashing”, “dick pics”… There is no shortage of words to designate the dissemination of sexually explicit content: photos, videos or written messages. And when the recipient is not consenting, it falls under the law. Law firms such as those of psychiatrists or sexologists are full of victims.
“This is a phenomenon that has grown considerably over the past decade. With the Internet, we are in a totalitarianism of transparency and this can lead to dramas, to reputations destroyed ”, underlines Me Alexandre Lazarègue, specialized in press and digital law. And to recall that the Penal Code sanctions invasions of privacy such as "revenge porn" - that is to say, broadcasting on the Internet a video or an intimate photo of his ex or his current partner without his consent - d '' a sentence of two years' imprisonment and a fine of 60,000 euros.
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Why do so many men succumb to this urge to show off their penises? “Apart from cases of aggression and harassment, therefore apart from situations of non-consent, the profusion of these images marks the influence of pornographic sites. In addition, male excitement goes a lot through the visual. The problem is that men think it's the same for women, which is not the case. In fact, they are less adept at these practices ”, underlines Dr Philippe Brenot, psychiatrist and therapist of couples, author of“ Why is love so complicated? »(Ed. The Arena).
"On the Internet, it's for life!" "
A recent North American scientific study, published in "The Journal Of Sex Research", confirms that many men are convinced that this excites, even in spite of themselves, the recipients ... "When we do it, we think that nobody is in the room, while the whole world is watching you, "warns sexologist Sylvain Mimoun, who poses here the consequences of the non-distinction between the intimate and public sphere when digital comes into play.
"On the Internet, it's for life!" We really need to be aware of this. It is very difficult to have these contents erased because we are on a global terrain, "says Lazarègue. But what does that say about the men who do it? “That they dare, that they are not afraid, that they have a taste for risk. For them, it is a form of mark of power. They know what they want and they want sex. For those who are more inhibited and doubt, there is the search for validation, they are waiting for us to compliment them… We are not at all seductive, ”decrypts the sexologist.
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"It's the zero degree of sex," analyzes psycho-sociologist Gilles d'Ambra, who specializes in male-female relationships. It is: Look how powerful I am . With the Internet and social networks, impulses can be expressed immediately. This is the problem of instantaneity. Before, we had to go and develop photos for that. This left time to think and the reason to intervene.
