The Little Rascals (1994)

The Exhibitionist

THE  EXHIBITIONIST

by  andrew  toth

(part 1 of 3 articles)

ALTHOUGH EXHIBITIONISM IS THE MOST COMMON OF ALL SEX OFFENCES, comprising from one third to two thirds of such crimes (Sexual and Marital Therapy, Vol4, No1, 1989, p93; Behav. Research & Therapy, Vol29, No2, p129), little is known about it.  Mere exposure of the genitals, for instance, does not define the act. 

Consider nudist beaches.  They should be exhibitionistic heaven, where males can expose themselves to their hearts’ content to scores of women.  But it doesn’t work.   Women who frequent these beaches are inured to the sight of penile appendages and show little, if any, reaction.

If, however, the exposure occurs elsewhere, at a time when a woman is not expecting a glimpse of the offending member, her defences will be down and she will react.  Now that’s exhibitionism.

In other words, just mere exposure is not enough; it has to be a specific type of exposure.

To  start  with,  we  can   discard  the classical  image  of the exhibitionist, coat wide open and standing in front of a female who is registering shock and is about to swoon.  Women are made of sterner stuff these days, as the following newspaper story shows:  Two women, schoolteachers if I remember correctly, were enjoying themselves in a park, when they were, shall we say, distracted in a manner unbefitting civilized society.  Deciding that assertiveness was preferable to swooning, they chased the rascal, caught him, had him arrested but declined to press charges.

But coming back to the point – overcoats are out.  European and Canadian flashers may use them, but in Australia’s congenial climate overcoats would merely attract attention and that, strangely enough, is what the exhibitionist does not want.  The world of the exhibitionist is a furtive one.  He is a criminal; he must melt into the crowd and hide until that right moment when he can stand out, as it were.

So the overcoat is of little help.  Enter another gadget, the car.  Cars make exposing an easy trip but, unfortunately, they are risky; your number plate is right there, for anyone to see.  And report.

Not that that deters the more dedicated exhibitionists.  One male, for example, drove around in a low slung sports car, top down, penis exposed, and whenever he pulled up beside a female driver he started masturbating.  He wrote to the Playboy Advisor with some question or other which I forget, except that it related to his driving habits.  The Playboy Advisor, not surprisingly, warned him of the dangers of risky driving.  Interestingly, the fellow had been doing it for years and no one had reported him.

While this method may seem crude, it does illustrate one of the central features of a “successful” flash: getting a favourable reaction.  A woman, flashed while sitting in her own car, feels safe and is more likely to respond favourably than, say, a woman who is exposed to in a park or deserted street.

But cars and coats are not the only way to display one’s person, as the puritanical law would call it.  Parking lots and highways are not to be dismissed, if Spencer Schlosnagle’s example is anything to go by.  Schlosnagle, the mayor of Friendsville, Maryland (USA), was convicted of “waving his willie” in a parking lot on New Year’s Eve 1992 and at motorists on I-68 in 1993.  Though he faced charges for an encore performance in May 1994, the good citizens of Friendsville re-elected him to a fifth term as mayor by almost two to one (US Playboy, May 1995, p14).  As mayor, Schlosnagle had masterminded a new development plan, hustled $1.2 million in grants to spruce up the sewage plant and built a park for the town.  Not bad, huh?  One can only wonder what would happen if other politicians “wagged their willies” instead of their tongues on occasion.

The point is…exhibitionists are not always the degenerates we may think them to be.  And we will cover that in Part 2 of this series.

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About the Author

Andrew Toth is the author of “The Exhibitionist”, an award winning and comprehensive book that examines all aspects of modern day exhibitionism – from the law, to court procedure, to the different therapies available, to the psychology of the act and also to the different methodologies used by exhibitionists. click here for more details.

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