“Without skiing or bike racing as an outlet, [Dan Hoyt] took to exposing himself in public. He is very matter-of-fact about it. ‘It’s the possibility of being caught or discovered, the thrill of doing something crazy,’ Hoyt says, comparing the feeling to one he had many years ago, when he was skiing Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon and abruptly veered from the trail, flying off a 40-foot cliff for no reason. ‘I’ve raced motorcycles, raced bicycles, skied competitively. I’ve hit trees at 60 miles an hour. Been run over by a motorcycle. I’ve broken arms, broken my leg, tore cartilage in my knee.’ Since 1994, when he was arrested for a lewd display on the 8th Street N/R platform, his thrill-seeking hadn’t gotten him into trouble with the law again—until recently. Hoyt says he doesn’t make a habit of touching himself on the subway, but he occasionally reveals his penis in other settings. ‘There have been situations in a bar or nightclub where you’re fooling around with somebody and yeah, you’re exposed. It’s nothing really accessible. Just sort of hidden, but risky. If someone looked closely, they could see what’s going on.’ Some people are offended. ‘Everybody has their limitations,’ Hoyt says. ‘For some people, it’s very, very wrong. Everybody has things to hide—things they don’t tell their best friend. I’ve seen Websites with scat and stuff and I think, What? Who would possibly be excited about that? But there are people who probably look at me and say, ‘How could that possibly be exciting in any way?’ ‘ As for his R-train exploits, Hoyt says, ‘I’ve met women who enjoy it. After this incident happened, I had a woman tell me, ‘You know, that sounds exciting to me.’ She wouldn’t mind being on the other end.’” — New York Magazine (US)

This is an amazing interview with Dan Hoyt, the New Age restaurateur who achieved notoriety in 2005 for exposing himself on a New York subway. You may recall that he “picked the wrong person” to flash, since his target was a young web developer who snapped his picture with her mobile phone and promptly posted it online. It didn’t take long before he was identified and humiliated in a way that apparently no arrest could have done. In the interview he says, “I wouldn’t imagine somebody throwing it up on the Internet for millions of people and destroying your life like that… It’s one thing to take it to the police. But on the Internet, I read a lot of people saying, ‘That was not too cool of her. That was really screwed up.’” That’s right, folks. He blames the victim.

Anyway, this is a fascinating profile of a sex offender. After you read through some baloney about vegetarian cuisine and suffer through the shards of his dreams — the failed musician says “I could have been Nine Inch Nails or Linkin Park” — Mr. Hoyt explains that his exhibitionism is less a perversion than a sort of extreme sport. He compares it to skiing and racing. (It would be interesting to see some extreme wanking competitions.) Probably there is some similarity to the thrill he receives from each, except that in sport the risk is injury or death and in exhibitionism the risk is jail or, as this tale shows, public humiliation.

The analogy between sports and exhibitionism naturally does not excuse his behavior, however much Mr. Hoyt might like it too. Reading this profile and also the comments he made to reporters following his sentencing, it’s hard not to get the impression the guy is a bit deluded. He told this interviewer, for example, that his victim might really “want to go out with me.” Extreme sports? Extreme wanking? Perhaps the most out-there part of the whole story is Mr. Hoyt’s extreme denial.

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