Otherwise, the selfie stick helps hold the selfie tool away from oneself so that a good selfie can be taken. * A remarkable number of young ladies whom no one would touch with the proverbial ten-foot-pole nevertheless use one to take a selfie from the right distance. * Selfie sticks allow the taking of "point-of-view" (POV) pornography when acting alone. The selfie stick achieves the goal of producing a photograph that shows you were somewhere important, and implies that you had a friend smart enough to click the shutter button.