Nude Models Strike

January 31, 2008 - 6:05 pm By John - USMA

Nude model

You can take away their clothes, but don’t you dare take away their poor excuse for a job.

Nude models are currently on strike, seeking higher pay and fixed contracts. Male and female nude models protested in Italy, where only 50 out of 300 models have full-time contracts.

Incredibly unfair and unfortunate, right? Yeah…no.

Who in their right mind considers nude modeling a full-time career, let alone one worth protesting? My mind is positively boggled – can they really be serious?

From The Times:

“Antonella Migliorini, 42, said that it was ‘a tough, cold job’ posing in the nude, often for eight hours a day. ‘We are not porn stars,’ she said. ‘If you’re lucky enough to have a full-time job you might make 25 an hour.’”

Lord above, please help Antonella! Since she cannot, say, work for a living, she must go on strike. It’s all for the cause. And “a tough, cold job,” you say? Try wielding a jackhammer in sub-zero temperatures then ask me about tough, cold jobs, little miss sun don’t shine.

You know why there aren’t many full-time contracts out there for nude models? It’s because nude modeling is not a real job. Anybody that can afford to live healthy and pay rent by posing naked is the luckiest sonofabitch roaming the planet – and they know it!

These striking models, both literally and figuratively, are really just going for the gold, where the only pain one feels in life is a numb ass. Dumbasses – look good and shut up.

Roger says:
Thu, 31st Jan 2008 6:47 pm

“It’s because nude modeling is not a real job.”

And why would that be, oh high arbiter of all things legitimately jobish?

“These striking models, both literally and figuratively, are really just going for the gold…”

And this makes them different from *every other person on the planet*… how, exactly?

Chad says:
Thu, 31st Jan 2008 7:21 pm

Sitting in the nude requires no immediate skill. Oh ok…look good nude, i guess, but that is no huge commodity. There is any number of average people who look good enough without clothes to do that job.

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Fri, 1st Feb 2008 4:11 am

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lily says:
Fri, 1st Feb 2008 5:32 am

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ethan says:
Fri, 8th Feb 2008 8:58 pm

Wow John get a clue. This isn’t Mrs America, there is skill involved and they’re not comparing their work to other types of work. Why are you taking this so personally? If there’s money involved they should get their cut.

D.Petito says:
Wed, 5th Mar 2008 8:21 am

When I was a college student, in the sixties (yes, long ago), I was earning
some money as a (no nonsense) artist’s model in regular art academies and
artists’ ateliers. It was rather a “found” but “looked for” job, but it
solved very well the problems of a moneyless student as it required little
skill, little involvement, and offering flexibility and the possibility of
having always some money in the pocket. After all there must be somebody who
does it, and I shouldn’t have been so bad for that job as I got somewhat
popular, as I had a regular figure where one could see muscles definitions
and skeleton, and thus easy to draw – let alone the fact I was a proper and
reliable professional too. I was nicknamed and known as “the circumcised
David” after the famous Michelangelo’s statue of David, as I was said to
look like as it might have been the Michelangelo Model for that statue and,
differently from the statue, I was circumcised. So I sort of made the rounds.
A romantic & “glamurous” job because its involvement with art and beauty?
Not at all!!!… it is very boring — but that is why one is paied for
doing. I have come up to the conclusion that it is not a job you can carry
on for long, or be regulated, and from which one day you can retire. You
can do as long you are in demand and as long you can do it, and it is so
even more these days, as today everybody can be a model once: competition is
far fiercer. What I mostly liked of the job was the fact that it gave me the
chance to move in the world of the arts and artists, where I could met very
intriguing personalities and live interesting experiences. That is the real
value of it, for what concerns me. Once i got graduated, left the job for a
completely different career: all that remained of it are remebrances a few
stories I wrote of those times. That is my experience in a nutshell. (a pic
of me of those times showed at: http://www.namir.it/GIOCONDA/noto.htm )