A US congressman long ridiculed for sharing the same name as a slang word for penis tearfully admitted Monday to sending pictures of his privates to young female fans online.
Anthony Weiner -- whose name is pronounced the same as the sausages used in hotdogs, and also is a synonym for the male sexual organ -- took to national TV networks to admit that he had been in a string of lewd online relationships.
Pressure had been building on the Democrat from New York after a close-up picture of a male crotch in underpants reached a woman in Seattle via his Twitter account. For a week he hotly denied sending the picture and claimed to have been hacked.
Wiping away tears Monday, Weiner admitted: "The picture was of me and I sent it. I am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused."
He said he had been sending naughty pictures online to about six women over the years and "we had become friends." But he said he had not met any of them and had not had a physical relationship outside of his year-old marriage.
Weiner said he does not intend to resign.
"I don\'t know what I was thinking. This was a destructive thing to do," he said.
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