Anyone who sends unwanted pictures of genitals to someone else could face two years in prison and being added to the Sex Offenders Register under new laws.
Cyberflashing would be added to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 under the plans, reports The Times.
At the minute offenders cannot be charged with a specific offence and so if prosecuted at all it has to be under legislation that covers harassment or outraging public decency.
Prosecutors in England and Wales have found the current law difficult to apply to online offences.
The first case of cyberflashing was reported to police in 2015 and last year research by Leicester University found a third of women have been victims.
Most cases do not get reported to police.
