A naked man has been arrested after attaching electrical wires to his penis and flashing his genitals to pedestrians from his car.

Kurt Jenkins, 56, drove slowly through gated streets in Boynton Beach, Florida, on Monday with an electrical 'muscle stimulator' placed on his genitals.

He gestured for a man to approach his car and pointed towards his groin before asking him to get in the passenger seat.

The man declined and phoned police after photographing Jenkins sitting in the driver's seat with his seat belt fastened, the device stuck to his penis.

Kurt Jenkins, 56, was arrested after being caught driving around the streets of a gated community in Boynton Beach, Florida, with an electrical device attached to his penis

Jenkins was taken into custody after being thrown to the ground by police while he was resisting arrest and suffered bruising and cuts to his face in the scuffle.

Police were alerted to Orange Drive in Boynton Beach, at around 3.30pm by a man who said Jenkins had approached him.

The victim said he slowed down his white Toyota car to gesture to him to join him inside the car and made 'sexual remarks'.

The man approached him to see him sitting naked in the driver's seat with wires and the device, later revealed to be an iReliev muscle stimulator, on his penis.

It works by sending electrical currents from the device to a part of the body hooked to it by pads.

The 56-year-old suffered bruising and cuts to his face while he resisted arrest

Jenkins had placed the pads on his penis and had the controller sitting next to his gear stick.

He declined Jenkins' invitation to get in the car and phoned police but was able to take a photograph of him first.

'The victim advised he observed a naked man driving a white 4 door Toyota slowly through his neighborhood.

'As the subject drove by the victim he gestured at the victim to look down towards his groin area where the victim observed an electronic device with wires attached to Jenkins penis.

'The victims advised he turned down Jenkins advances and contacted our agency,' Boynton Beach Police Department said in a statement.

Jenkins continued driving towards a school where children, aged 'five-ten' were being released, the police report revealed.

He slowed down but did not approach any of the children nor did any seem to go near his car.

By the time officers arrived to arrest him he had put on some red shorts.

He tried to resist arrest but was pushed to the ground, suffering facial injuries, and taken in to custody.

The man now faces charges including lewd and lascivious exhibition, exposure of sexual organs and resisting a law enforcement officer without violence.

Jenkins had attached an iReliev muscle stimulator to his penis. The $50 device is designed to stop pain in targeted areas by sending electrical currents to a chosen part of the body