These wimmen are getting offended when I click on the "request photo" button.Jesus. 4 out of 5 closed today, and the fifth won't release it.WTMF?
Truthfully, when it comes to the pics, it's all in how someone asks me. A polite (or just neutral) request is fine and understandable. I'm not sure how I'd feel if I got the "button"--I didn't know it existed (why do I feel like I'm working off some older version of eHarmony?). It's not that it would bother me, but there can be many reasons why someone would hold their picture back. For me, I wouldn't want to show it before open communication, and that's that. So if I got the button at an earlier stage, and there is no way to keep the match open but still not share the pic, then I'd probably close, too, unless the match were the moops, in which case I'd be sending lots of fake pictures of some hottie hoping to trick him into dumping his girlfriend and meeting me.

BTW, in my prior iteration at eHarmony, I sent my usual well-thought-out initial open communication, and instead of any real reply, the guy sent something along the lines of "Why haven't you shared your picture? Are you hiding something? I might be talking to a rock for all I know." Closed him, but not before checking his pics and letting him know that he might want to consider NOT revealing his.