obscene flashing. What is the enjoyment of exposing oneself?

Question

It seems to me that there are some folks.who enjoy giving others a sneek peep a there privates. Does this thrill them when they noticed that someone has made eye contact with there exposed area?

Answer 1

Joseph is partially correct in that an individual who feels driven to expose themselves (Flash) has a pathology. However, these individuals do not only flash women and girls, but anybody who they feel sexually attracted towards. If the person is sexually attracted to boys, then they expose themselves to boys, if a person is sexually attracted to both males and females then the person exposes him/herself to both sexes.

What is really going on in the majority of these cases is an individual with an extreamly low regard for him/herself, low self esteem and often very low levels of confidence in his/her ability to attract others to them and an inability to attain and sustain viable romantic/sexual relationships. Sometimes this pathology contains elements of deep frustration and lonliness which translates to acting out behaviors.

When a person feels isolated, lonely, unable to attain close relationships, etc, the attention, even momentarily of flashing is what keeps them feeling they are a viable individual who can have an affect on others, and the world around them. They often feel they are not good enough for the mainstream society and so flit around on the edges.

They know what they do is wrong, that it is not socially exceptable behavior, and they try to not engage thusly. However, as the emotions which drive the behavior coontinue to build over time, the desire to "flash" somebody builds in intensity. Finally he/she acts out and receives a large degree of relief from all the emotions which drive the behavior. The person then feels dirty, bad, and many other negitive emotions about him/herself, and this self loathing contributes ever lower degrees of self esteem, confidence, and loathing. This ratches up the degree of items which initially began the acting out behaviors in the first place, and a vicious cycle begins of acting out, trying to stop, build up of both pressures, and the additional self loathing and other negitive self regarding emotions, which simply increases the intense desire to engage in the behavior again.

These people are very lonely and feel disconnected to society around them. They often also feel deep levels of social rejection and have severe anger issues which involve feelings of victemization from society. The flashing is a way to "get back" at that society which is perceived to be responsible for all the problems the individual has in life.

These folks are very sad and depressed individuals and are extreamly isolated. They have ever increasing impulses to find ways to relieve all of the negitive emotions and self loathing that fills their daily lives. This will continue to increase and the behaviors will become more out of control and will develop into ever increasing degrees of acting out. These folks can find themselves rapists/murders etc.

Flashing signals a deep need for help. If they receive that help early on they can be assisted to healthy ways to deal with the low regard of self, learn functional social skills and become more "normal", which allows them to enter society in a positive manner which can then fullfill their emotional needs. If they do not receive help this behavior will escalate and become so out of control it develops into a deeper pathology where victems are harmed in increasingly violent manners.

Flashing is not a sexual issue, just as a rapist is not looking for sex, but power. Flashing is a way for the individual to feel power. It is all about power, and not about sex. We need to remember that as members of society we have a deep connection with everyone around us and can influance how they perceive themselves and society around them. If we are abusive to others we contribute to the low self esteem and lack of self confidence they feel. Everyone is connected to everyone else and we all need to remember that simple decency to others can avert many dangerous behaviors in members of our society.

Simple kindness can go a long way in changing the dangerous behaviors some people develop. These folks often begin to develope the low self esteem and low self confiidence, the lonliness and isolation during the teenage years. We all know how mean and cruel children can be to others. I firmly believe teaching our youth simple decency and how abusive and rejecting behaviors can have such deep impact on those on the receiving end many of these teens would stop the cruelty that is dealt out so freely on campuses across our nation.

The other area needing to be addressed is abuse and rejection in our homes. Children raised with abuse, and neglect are ripe for becoming the victems on the campuses as the young have an uncanny ability to recognize the most vulnerable and the strong ever attack the weak.

So, if we, as a society, we able to begin addressing the root cause of the pathology, we could advert most if not all of these types of behaviors. We could become a TRUE civilized society where all ae accepted as a valuable member.

Answer 2

I don't know what kind of thrill they get, but I'm sure glad women liked doing it when I was a truck driver.

Nothing like a good hooter shot to break up the monotony of a long trip.

Answer 3

Yes, it is considered as a pathology. People who expose themselves need this stimulation which offend so many young women as they expose themselves only to women even little girls.They need some psychological help and of course to be reported to the police they are considered sex offenders..

Answer 4

it's usually the thrill of seeing their shocked face, or cheers. Flashing the person just seems to be their weapon of choice to do that with.

Answer 5

hatred