Comments on: Nude Models Strike

By: D.Petito

D.Petito — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:21:19 +0000

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 )

By: ethan

ethan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:58:33 +0000

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.

By: lily

lily — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:32:23 +0000

HOT HOT HOT ….
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By: Harsh

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By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:21:41 +0000

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.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:40 +0000

"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?