Email: Why men ask for a picture [Ch]

Please don't think [the sincere 5% of men who ask] for a picture [do so] for the shallow reasons that 95% of all men do. [They] do so because 95% of all profiles have a photo [and 4%] share one immediately afterwards -- and obviously, you have seen [the man's photo already]. [Women demand photos of men for the exact same reasons.] If you have reasons not to do so, [men] can respect that; but that usually involves stating that you have some, and possibly what they are. Put another way, if [you and a man] are speaking face-to-face, you do not have a bag over your head. [So] it is not abnormal to ask for a photo, it is abnormal to withhold one (esp. without an explanation). [Sincere men] don't play games and since you are a woman (who traditionally expects the man not to play games), all [any decent man is] asking for is to treat each other as equals.