First, a quick reminder that the website for my new book, Paranormality, has just launched here and contains a nice little video to put a chill up your spine. The book can be preordered from Amazon at 50% discount here.
Second, James M sent me this lovely picture yesterday……
I am wondering if there is a male/female difference in of it, so feel free to say if you are male or female and what you saw when you first looked at it…..
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January 19, 2011 at 5:32 am |
I’m a male. I see a chick with odd glasses.
January 19, 2011 at 7:57 pm
I am a male and I instantly saw the rudeness.
January 20, 2011 at 12:41 am
I’m female and saw the rudeness in fewer than two seconds.
January 19, 2011 at 5:33 am |
I am a male and all I see after staring at it for a minute is a girl standing on a cliff with some forested hills behind her.
January 19, 2011 at 5:35 am |
It’s a girl on a cliff.
January 19, 2011 at 5:37 am |
I see the rudeness, but I probably wouldn’t have, if I hadn’t been told to look for it.
Having said that, it didn’t take me long (ooer) to see it.
January 19, 2011 at 6:52 am
Ditto.
M
January 19, 2011 at 7:11 am
Ditto, ditto…
January 19, 2011 at 8:09 am
Triple ditto.
January 19, 2011 at 8:43 am
yep me too – it was immediately obvious but Idon’t know if it would have been had I not been expecting to see it. But no way of knowing that is there?
January 19, 2011 at 9:09 am
I’m a bloke and I’m with these guys. Only saw it because I was told there was something there.
January 19, 2011 at 9:56 am
I’m a Guy, Saw it only because was asked to look for something with rudeness in the picture.
January 19, 2011 at 11:19 am
this
January 19, 2011 at 11:50 am
I’m a guy, me too.
January 19, 2011 at 12:30 pm
How do you all know that you wouldn’t have seen it? Did you perform a control experiment where you cloned yourselves then cunningly erased that specific part of information from the clones brain that they had to look for something rude then showed it to them.
How do you know that the surprise in seeing the wang in an ostensibly innocent photo would not have enhanced its effect on you?
January 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Is that a serious question? The reason being for myself, (and I’m sure a lot of other people) is that I would have just moved on to the next website/blogpost or whatever I was doing. I wouldn’t study a picture that I haven’t been hinted to.
January 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Beau – so in responding to my question you are saying you are able to suspend your disbelief over the cloning and brain cleansing aspects, but not over the “looking at pictures” bit?
My previous question was deliberately facetious, to point out that it is impossible to know how you would respond without the information, something the commenters above had confidently asserted and I beleived to be erroneous.
I would have thought that this kind of subtle nuance of human behaviour would be apparent to followers of Dr Wisemans work. I love the big baldy.
January 19, 2011 at 5:39 am |
To those who can’t see it, look at her knee
January 19, 2011 at 11:31 am
Thanks for the explaination. I did not see it at all. It is not a very good one. It would probably work better if we first only got to see the lower half of the image.
And i am male.
January 19, 2011 at 12:10 pm
I absolutely would not have noticed that without the explanation. I thought the ‘rudeness’ was referring to the billowed-out skirt!
January 19, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Thank you I really didn’t see it!
i’m a girl
January 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm
I didn’t see this at all without your explaination, thank you. Maybe I’ve just lead a very sheltered life!!
January 24, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I didn’t see it before you mention that… but after LOL ! (I’m a dude)
January 19, 2011 at 5:40 am |
You’re all wrong. It’s a girl standing on a cliff wearing an ugly sweater.
January 19, 2011 at 9:40 am
You’re just jealous because she’s hotter than you.
January 19, 2011 at 5:40 am |
The rock has pretty coloured lichen on it, but the photographer needs to have better awareness of light to bring out the best in their subject.
January 19, 2011 at 5:40 am |
I am male. When I first looked it did look like a penis sticking out from her skirt. Then I realised it was just her leg and a shadow
January 19, 2011 at 5:41 am |
At first I didnt notice it, now I cant stop seeing it! Sheesh thanks for that…
January 19, 2011 at 5:42 am |
Male. Looks like she’s got a wang coming out of her skirt.
January 19, 2011 at 5:43 am |
The ugly shirt
January 19, 2011 at 5:44 am |
I found what you’re talking about but it took me a few moments. It’s kind of a fleeting illusion for me. I’m a male.
If you look at her right knee in the correct way, you might see a penis stick out… (I hope that’s what I was supposed to see…)
January 19, 2011 at 5:44 am |
Male: It took a really long time, and I still didn’t get it until I noticed the file name was “light.” I don’t want to expose the answer, but the hint is that the light makes the illusion.
January 19, 2011 at 5:45 am |
All the men who replied to the effect of ‘I didn’t see the penis’ clearly feel insecure about seeing penises that are not there. Maybe personal issues…
January 19, 2011 at 6:10 am |
I’m female, and I probably wouldn’t have noticed it if I hadn’t seen it on Lamebook the other day.
January 19, 2011 at 6:15 am |
Female. didn’t notice that at all..
January 19, 2011 at 6:20 am |
Female. It’s a girl on a mountain with a gorgeous valley in the background. And the girl’s eyes have been pixelated for some odd reason.
January 19, 2011 at 6:20 am
Forgot to say: That’s all I see, even after reading the comments.
January 19, 2011 at 6:27 am |
Male. Immediate guffaw and am impressed with the length
January 19, 2011 at 6:33 am |
Male. Didn’t see it until i gave up and looked at the comments. Now i see it, but it’s ‘meh’
January 19, 2011 at 6:33 am |
I am female and didn’t see it until it was pointed out. But like others have said now I know what it is I home straight in on it every time.
January 19, 2011 at 6:35 am |
It took me ages to work out what the “rude” element was. If I didn’t know to look I wouldn’t have seen it.
Worried bout Richard’s knob fixation.
January 19, 2011 at 6:48 am |
I am male, and did not see the rudeness until I looked at the comments.
January 19, 2011 at 6:51 am |
Female – saw the impressive semi sticking out from under the skirt even before it registered it was a skirt!
January 19, 2011 at 6:54 am |
I didn’t notice the knee penis until I read the comments. I did however see a penis with balls in the background scenery. It starts at the twin hills in the upper left corner and bends right toward the girl.
January 19, 2011 at 7:02 am |
Male – and what I saw first was the awful skirt which at first glance look like very baggy jogging pants, and an ill fitting sweater. And the hairdo is pretty ‘rude’ too…
(Do I – at this point – also need to point out I’m gay too…?
January 19, 2011 at 7:20 am |
I’m a male and it took me reading the comments and looking hard at the picture until I realized what the deal was.
Now that I’ve seen it, two things: (i) if you think this is rude, then you are possibly the kind of adult that still giggles like a 4-year-old when someone mentions peepee parts; (ii) if you are one of those who saw it “immediately”, then you have a lot of imagination, but you are using it for the wrong purposes.
January 19, 2011 at 11:56 am
oh, and: female, only saw it after reading the comments.
January 19, 2011 at 7:24 am |
Male; It’s a holiday snap of a lovely young lady in reasonably dramatic lighting but very badly framed.
I did see the issue, but may brain sticks much more readily to the straightforward than the Freudian interpretation. The clothing and hair just won’t let any other view persist.
January 19, 2011 at 7:54 am |
Long Jane Silver
January 19, 2011 at 8:02 am |
I saw the blurred out face first. Took me a few seconds to notice ‘the other’!
January 19, 2011 at 8:10 am |
I see a girl standing on a cliffside with her eyes pixelated for no apparently-discernible reason. Even after looking long and hard after reading the comments here I can’t see what’s rude. Apparently her leg ostensibly looks like a penis? Looks like a leg to me.
Oh wait, now I see it.
January 19, 2011 at 8:35 am |
Don’t you get bored with this stuff?
January 19, 2011 at 8:38 am |
If the majority of the above comments aren’t tongue-in-cheek I’m mystified. I saw the ‘penis’ at first glance. A closer look showed that it is caused by the shadow.
I’m male.
January 19, 2011 at 8:59 am |
My homosexual male collegue saw it immediately. It took me – heterosexual female – 5 minutes to discover “it”.
January 19, 2011 at 9:02 am |
Female. Took me a while to figure out that the lighting on her knee is what makes it ‘rude’ — didn’t spot anything at first.
January 19, 2011 at 9:14 am |
Male. I saw the girl first (especially her pixelated eyes drew my attention), noticed the background after that. I did not see the rude illusion until I read the comments here. Now I can’t unsee it
January 19, 2011 at 9:17 am |
You men have funny looking wangs. Female and I didn’t see it at all until I read through comments.
January 19, 2011 at 10:07 am |
Are we maybe getting a sneak preview of Richard’s next-book-but-one?
)
January 19, 2011 at 10:31 am |
Even after reading the comments I still dont see anything rude.lol.
January 19, 2011 at 11:15 am |
A girl with her eyes pixellated out. Couldn’t see anything rude at all, until an explicit comment pointed it out.
January 19, 2011 at 11:17 am
p.s. Female
January 19, 2011 at 11:21 am |
I’m male, and it took me a good few moments to realise what I was actually looking at there.
January 19, 2011 at 11:21 am |
Male and I saw a penis.
January 19, 2011 at 11:23 am |
Female and only saw it because I looked specially for it.
January 19, 2011 at 11:23 am |
She must be a cock-knee from London.
January 20, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Love it.
Good comment.
January 19, 2011 at 11:28 am |
I’m a male, and yes… I saw a pennis… ¿Maybe because I read it on Twitter?
January 19, 2011 at 11:37 am |
Saw it straight away. Very funny.
January 19, 2011 at 11:47 am |
I immediately saw *something* that appeared unusual poking out from under her skirt, and initially thought it was something flesh-coloured that had been placed there. I didn’t think it was a penis, but I thought “I assume that’s supposed to look like a penis, but it’s completely the wrong shape and size.”
It took a closer look to discover it was a coincidence of the way a shadow fell across her leg.
January 19, 2011 at 11:52 am |
Male, and like (I think, from a quick scan of the comments) most people of both sexes, I spent considerable time looking at the image without seeing anything untoward. I did think, “It’s probably the knee, which looks odd because of the lighting, but certainly doesn’t look anything like a penis.”
Eventually I discovered that it does kinda sorta look like a penis provided you don’t look straight at it. You have to look at another part of the image, e.g. the wrist, and see the leg through the non-focusing part of the eye. Or else edit the image and make it darker, so that the part of the leg in shadow is harder to see. That helps too.
Absolutely no possibility I would have noticed this if I hadn’t been told to look. I almost didn’t notice it as it was.
January 19, 2011 at 12:18 pm |
I’m male.
Finally I see something beneath the skirt. But never saw it that way if there wasn’t your hint.
January 19, 2011 at 12:22 pm |
Hi there!
Yeah, I was linked here from Wiseman’s Twitter feed, where it said: “Woman Penis Illusion”. So I was already looking for an illusory penis. When I scrolled down, I immediately saw it. It’s pretty obviously the play of light and shadow on her knee, but it’s there.
It did take me a while to scroll down, because I couldn’t decide if she was really hot in a girl-next-door kind of way, or a teenager and therefore what we Americans like to call “jailbait”. I eventually decided that enough other respondents have noticed that she’s kinda hot, so if she IS a teenager, at least we’re all going down together. [nods] That’ll probably be a very small consolation when we’re all doing time in the big house.
January 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm |
Female. The first thing I saw was the stripey jumper (I hate pink). I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for a penis until I read some of the comments and then it took a few seconds to find it. Possibly because the end of it was considerably lower than I expected – that would be a really long one with possible erectile issues…
January 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm |
I’m female and I saw it straight away! Not sure what that says about me
January 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm |
You have a lot of really uptight readers, eh? I’m female and I laughed!
January 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm |
Male, noticed it after looking at the face, shirt and landscape; laughed.
January 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm |
I’m female. I saw the penis (possible because you’d primed me, possibly because I have a crude streak) and then I saw that it was the light on her knee and the way the wind’s blowing her skirt.
When I look back, I see the penis again, and then the truth.
Thanks for the giggle.
January 19, 2011 at 1:08 pm |
I was so convinced that she had a huge penis that I initially suspected it was the work of photoshop, rather than the way the shadows are falling.
I am male – but not as male as the girl in the photograph, so I’m off to stand in the shadows – now where did I put my little grey skirt…?
January 19, 2011 at 1:11 pm |
(Male.) Saw it almost immediately. However, that was only after, for some reason, I examined her breast area for anything possibly “rude”. Maybe that says something deep about me. “Hey! Some rude illusion featuring a female!” And I immediately scan the subject’s breasts. Hmm. I never knew this about myself before today.
Anyway, after reading the comments, my reaction is “Stop picking on the poor lass’s fashion sense! Hasn’t she got enough problems already?”
January 19, 2011 at 1:33 pm |
I am the girl in the pic. That is not my knee. It IS, in fact, my penis.
I’ll thank you all to look away.
January 19, 2011 at 1:38 pm |
Female and I still can’t see anything but a knee in shadow. Okay so there’s the patella and the top of the rectus femoris tendon and the vastus medialis muscle but still…
January 19, 2011 at 1:39 pm |
I’m mail and wouldn’t have seen anything noteworthy if I hadn’t known there was somethign to look for, but then it jumped out at me (as it were) at second glance.
January 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm |
Female. It looked as though her leg were twisted the wrong way, and/or too thin.
January 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm |
If I hadn’t been told what to look for, I probably wouldn’t have seen it.
January 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm |
Female. I saw a young woman in a stripy top and skirt standing on some rocks overlooking some nice scenery. What else is there?
January 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Ah, right. Now I’ve read all the comments I can see the knee/penis. Knew I should be looking for something rude when I first looked at the pic (this being Richard’s blog an’ all ;-D) but couldn’t see it at all till I read the explantations.
January 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm |
Female, just saw a girl on a cliff until I read the comments.
Now it cannot be unseen!
January 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm |
I looked a couple of times but couldn’t see anything. Having now read ‘the answer’ it jumps out of the pic!
January 19, 2011 at 3:16 pm |
I’m female and saw it straight away. It’s a good ‘un – made me laugh.
January 19, 2011 at 3:26 pm |
Richard – the way in which the brain processes the information reported via the eye is paradoxically both universal and highly subjective. Although the illusion of a cock once specifically indicated was obvious, until that point, my brain had been aware of was a knee with a shadow falling across it; from this I surmise two things; you are circumcised and/or used to looking at your penis with the foreskin pulled back, and you haven’t had sex in a really long time!
January 19, 2011 at 3:39 pm |
Male and at second glance I noticed the shadow effect.
January 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm |
As allways, rudeness is in the eye of the beholder
January 19, 2011 at 3:48 pm |
I am a man and… yes! i have my mind dirty
January 19, 2011 at 4:21 pm |
I’m a female, and didn’t see it before looking at the comments here. I do have a sense for bad jokes, but it still leaves me asking, what is so “rude” (as Richard’s messages often are titled) about a penis? I’m beginning to feel a bit tired of these postings. (Sorry, I’m not a native English speaker either)
January 19, 2011 at 4:39 pm |
I´m a male, and the first thing I thought was; chick-with-a-dick!
But then, after some consideration I found that a bit farfetched.
January 19, 2011 at 4:43 pm |
I had to really look to see anything. Saw just a girl until I paid better attention.
January 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm |
Had too look for a good few seconds to see what the rudeness could be, I would not have noticed it otherwise
January 19, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Meant to say I am female
January 19, 2011 at 6:21 pm |
Female. Looked at the background (river, trees) for a few seconds, noted the vaguely 80s clothes, and then said oh my god, she has a penis peeking our from her skirt?!
January 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Male. Similar experience, but I don’t know that I would have even noticed the “illusion” had this not been titled as a “rude” picture.
January 19, 2011 at 6:34 pm |
Didnt see much of nuttin except a girl on a cliff.
till some one said look at the knee
Now I Cant stop seeing it!!!!
January 19, 2011 at 6:47 pm |
im a heterosexual man i though someone was talking about pac man in the trees. i thought the thing on her knees was like a thumb until some one suggested a penis.
January 21, 2011 at 8:21 am
I saw the pac man in the forest too.
January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm |
I’m male and didn’t see it after a minute until i read the comments. Then it became clear.
January 19, 2011 at 8:36 pm |
I’m a male and didn’t see it at first (2-3 min). Saw it after examining the queen Victoria picture.
January 19, 2011 at 9:28 pm |
I’m a female, and I saw a huge penis.
January 19, 2011 at 9:38 pm |
I can’t help wondering if the split here is not male/female, but watches porn/doesn’t watch porn. I suspect there is a strong correlation between the two, however, and as asking commenters to self-identify which side of that split they fall on is likely to lead to inaccuracies, perhaps Richard’s idea is best.
January 19, 2011 at 9:54 pm |
I’m male and I instantly saw a girl with a penis hanging down to her knee. Damn.
January 19, 2011 at 11:44 pm |
I’m female.
I usually see the rudeness right away, but I actually had to look at the pic for about 45 seconds before I saw it on this one. Now it is glaringly obvious.
January 20, 2011 at 12:13 am |
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January 20, 2011 at 3:27 am |
Female and I don’t see the rudeness.
January 20, 2011 at 6:43 am |
Female. Saw this posted elsewhere with no hint of any kind, and I saw it immediately. In fact I had to look hard at her knee to get my brain to “unsee” the penis so I could see that it was just her knee with sunlight creating the illusion.
January 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm |
I saw a face in the forested landscape to the left – the lake is the eye – before I saw the real trick of the light.
January 20, 2011 at 5:50 pm |
Female – looked for a while, and didn’t see the rudeness until I read some comments.
January 20, 2011 at 7:15 pm |
Female. Saw it straight away.
January 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm |
Male. I saw a pretty girl standing in front of a scenic view until I read that it was supposed to be a rude picture. When I read that, I looked more closely and saw the “rudeness’ produced by the shadows.
January 21, 2011 at 12:36 am |
Male and it took me forever to see it.
January 21, 2011 at 6:15 am |
Female and didn’t see it until read some posts. Did see in the back ground what looks like a head to chest profile of a woman lying on her back {head near left and chest on the right top} and maybe having a really bad hair day.
January 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm |
Does anyone know what’s creating the shadow?Where is it?
January 31, 2011 at 2:37 pm
It’s called the sun and it’s a very long way away.
January 21, 2011 at 7:40 pm |
I’m male and saw it straight away (the folds of the skirt add to the illusion), and had to look hard at the knee to unsee it – though my eyes did note the 80s top and her cute small boobs on the way down.
January 22, 2011 at 12:39 am |
I’m female and I saw a young woman at a scenic site. I still don’t see the rudeness. I’ll read the comments now and go find it, I guess.
January 22, 2011 at 1:41 am |
I am female and I saw a thin girl. I looked her her knees and thought they were nobbly! I only looked back at it to see what was rude after seeing the comments but then it took me ages to see it!!
January 22, 2011 at 3:15 am |
I’m male and this truly sucked.
January 22, 2011 at 5:57 am |
i have read most of the posts but i still cant see it. im a female!
January 22, 2011 at 6:03 pm |
I am female and stared at it for 10 minutes getting annoyed with myself for not being able to see it and had to get someone to point it out to me. And I thought I had a dirty mind
January 23, 2011 at 12:57 pm |
I am a member of the Male sex. Saw what looked to be an obviously faked penis. My curiosity pricked, I discovered upon closer penile inspection the woman’s manhood to be a kneecap, suggestively lit by a shaft of light. The profile of the cock is blocked out by a shadow cast by the rod of her left leg. Upon this evidence I believe my case to be well hung.
January 23, 2011 at 11:47 pm |
Male, no rudeness seen. Even with explanation I had a hard time to see a penis in her knee.
January 26, 2011 at 4:40 pm |
I see a lot of comments very down on her perfectly okay jumper/sweater. It’s probably very chilly up there and she popped it on to keep the cold out. Nothing wrong with it. Tsk.
Oh and I also see a massive cock.
January 26, 2011 at 7:47 pm |
I am a girl, I see a girl, and I see that the shadow on her leg creates an optical ilusion, that seems like she is also a boy, with a long long male part
January 26, 2011 at 9:07 pm |
Stared at it for ages without seeing any rudeness.
Read the comment about the ‘knee’, then stared for a while longer, saw it after about 30 secs, but wasn’t sure for a while if I was seeing the right thing – it’s not terribly good is it really? I mean, a bit, but not really.
(male)
January 26, 2011 at 11:08 pm |
Wow, took me forever. Had to read the comments, then examine her knee for almost a minute. Now I can’t not see it.
I’m a male, and my wife has really bony knees like this girl, LOL.
January 27, 2011 at 6:43 am |
male. saw a chick witha dick
January 27, 2011 at 11:37 am |
Female, saw it straight away, but took me a while to see the real picture once my brain had noticed the rudeness…couldn’t switch off..
February 3, 2011 at 4:47 am |
It’s lighting on her knee. The Wind is blowing her dress out and the sun is creating a shadow effect. A bunch of perverts you are
February 4, 2011 at 4:59 am
ohhhhh man, that can NOT be unseen. I want to go back to being clueless.
February 4, 2011 at 4:57 am |
Male. Nothing out of the ordinary.
February 6, 2011 at 2:41 pm |
I am a male and i just see what the picture shows… a girl on a cliff and behind her is a beautiful scenery… That’s all..
February 8, 2011 at 12:38 am |
How can that be lighting on her knee when it extends beyond her knee?
June 1, 2011 at 9:40 pm |
LOLLOLOLOLOL
June 30, 2011 at 10:56 pm |
im a female and i sat here laughing my ass off for 12 minutes then showed like 3 friends
August 3, 2011 at 2:00 am |
I am male and didn’t see it until I was told where to look and then I saw it instantly. I don’t think I would have seen it unless I had been given a hint as to where to look. I could have stared at that picture all day and not noticed it without a hint.
I was given an optical illusion test of a spinning cat once and I couldn’t make the cat change direction until I looked at another website showing a different contrast. I like to joke my brain is stupid when it comes to optical illusions–it won’t solve them until a hint is given
August 15, 2011 at 8:31 pm |
rudeness is the big sickness in life because whom has rudeness he / she never can make friends and life because rudeness never leave him or her to make it.