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I've been told that all of the samba and diet coke (and oh yeah, the multitude of transvestites with 5 o'clock shadows on their chest) has a generally swishifying effect on your average Brazilian male. Soccer does that, too.

But what drives a reputedly heterosexual man with an excessive sex drive to post pictures of his own penis, not once or twice, but compulsively? Especially with that hairy, greasy belly hanging over the edge of the camera frame, unsuccessfully defying gravity?

My diagnosis is that Smartt wants to be rejected. Like many repressed transvestites, he seeks out rejection - in urinals, in dark alleyways where he flashes open his coat and asks schoolchildren if they'd like a "peach gobbler," and on this message board devoted to porn. This is in some ways a healthy diversion for him.

Or maybe it's a Brazilian social habit to drop your pants and shake each other's members, like how Japanese exchange business cards or we shake hands.

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