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It’s a common experience of most women who have any kind of online presence to be on the receiving end of the infamous Dick Pic.

Now, let’s be honest: if a guy is in possession of a truly astonishing penis that normally would be attached to a dolphin or a blue whale or at the very least a extremely well-endowed horse, this could indeed be something of which to be proud. It could even deserve to be memorialized in pictures, much as we cherish photographs of the Sydney Opera House and the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge or have posters of the enormous Saturn V rocket with an Apollo capsule perched on top.

Yet, disappointingly, the vast majority of dick pics circulating on the Internet are by no means impressive. While few of us would wish to disparage a man’s pride and joy, it’s good to have a sense of perspective in these matters. And an objective perspective would suggest that the vast majority of dick pics are insufficiently memorable to be so widely distributed. Furthermore, in this age of freely available Internet porn it’s infeasible to imagine that the Average Joe is unaware of how average his penis is.

So what’s going on?