It fascinates me how very extremely sexual the spam I receive has become. I always get emails asking me to “be better endowed” and revealing that “yes, size does matter” and that “she will never have enough of you.” Then they follow that the only way to be a healthy functional “man” is to purchase some penile performance enhancement drugs manufactured by a number of abused topless men in a sweatshop in Malaysia.

Who told these people I was a man anyway? I am fed up with receiving these types of messages on a daily basis, although I don’t even have to deal with them as they immediately get trashed in my spam folder. Still, it is disturbing to think that, in an age where spam has stood its ground (and more) and has become so intelligent as to bypass detectors, it still cannot detect the gender of its targets.

I mean gender is pretty obvious, yeah? It’s easy to judge who’s a man and who’s a woman, also who’s not man or woman but something in between. If it is so, then why can’t spam do that? Isn’t spam the Microbe of The Century, so invincibly intelligent it has magical access to all our emails and blogs and mail boxes?

Another point I am intrigued by in these sexual spam messages is the emphasis on “manhood” being almost entirely limited to one’s size. They also tend to emphasize that whoever has the Magical Pill will never, ever, have any relationship problems. It really must be magical because some people consider a relationship to be more than a prolonged erection that just won’t go away unless you see your doctor about it.

But when I think of it, if a certain percentage of spam messages did not achieve success, spam would not still be alive today. It makes me wonder really, who would buy a drug off their Spam folder from a message titled “No more being shy of your manhood” and sent by Lisa XxX?

Seriously, who?

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