Dear Mr. Weiner

You finally came clean and owned your cock. What took so long? Ordinarily I would be praising a guy for not being ashamed of what he’s got between his legs. It’s there, we all know it’s there, we all know it should be there; if it’s not, society considers it freakish. After all, look at the grief transgender folks go through, not to mention the ridicule transvestites take. Then what’s the big deal?

Here’s the problem with how you’ve done this. It’s not that you took pictures of your bare chest, or your cock (hidden in grey boxer-briefs) and put them out for all to gawk at (well, thanks to CNN and other cable networks). The problem is you sent them directly to women – women you didn’t know, women you hoped would be impressed by the size of the package and perhaps indulge in a bit of cyber sex so you could flog your log.

This kind of thing, especially if you’re hoping to do it, if not anonymously then on the down low, is never going to stay that way if you’re a public figure, particularly if your public life is ‘politician.’ Then it leaves you positioned very poorly. It leaves you open to threats of exposure which equals blackmail – a very dangerous thing in politics.

Unfortunately in our society, we still embrace the Puritan ethic and nowhere is that more evident than in Washington, D.C. where you folks love pointing fingers at one another’s foibles. Are your “mistakes” as you call them in the same grievous ballpark as, say, Mr. Vittner (who showed up on a prostitution client list after campaigning on morals standards) or Mr. Ensign (who fucked his best friend’s wife  -  also after touting his moralistic high ground)? I say “no” only because you made no such claims; you never claimed being above human, above being a man.

Yeah, hundreds of thousands of guys have taken photos of their dicks (with and without hiding them behind underwear) and put them out on various websites under anonymous conditions. No doubt a percentage of them have been discovered and called out for it. And no doubt those guys followed a man’s typical response (as you did) and denied it until it all unraveled and they had to cop to it. I would even go so far as to suggest there are many more politicians who’ve got digital dick syndrome – what can one say, it seems to be a guy thing. But one hopes those politicos learned from this experience.

Even so, I’ll still give you props for not being ashamed of your package. It did look like you’ve got a fairly impressive tool in the box. However, let me suggest, the next time you want to post images of mini-me don’t tweet them to unknown women. Now that we’ve all gotten the preview, put the feature attraction out there and own it!