On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 09:14:57PM -0500, knarf wrote: > I only mention that because there seems to be a double standard here: it's > okay to show female sexuality but not male. And I wonder why? > > I understand that an individual photographer will say, "But I don't want to > photograph male nudes. As a straight male I just don't appreciate male > nudity, erotic or otherwise. It's my right to choose to photograph only > female nudes." > > Fair enough. > -- snip --
> > > However until there is some balance between portrayal of the genders I can't > support female nudes. Because until that happens females will be sexualized > and males won't be. And I just don't think that's right. > Fair enough. There have a few reasons that I don't post nudes of men. To a minor extent, it's because I don't think that the list here, by and far wants to see them. Another reason is that the account that I post my more adult themed work on is on a very NSFW website, but if anyone is specifically interested send me a note off list, and I'll send you the details. The biggest reason is that while I do get quite a few people asking me to photograph them nude, very few of them are men. But, since it seems so important to you, and in the interest of fairness... Here are some nude self portraits I took when I wanted to work with lighting and didn't have any other models: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157630136872846/ When my schedule allows, one of the things I do is host photo practicas for the local fetish/kink community. Anybody who wants to can show up to take or pose for photos. I am pretty much end up photographing the people who want to be photographed, that nobody else is photographing. At this event, I was the only person taking photos, everybody else either wanted to pose for photos, or tie other people up for photos. I was involved in tying the scarves in the first of these shots, but I didn't do any of the actual ropework: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157638030990316/ It should be obvious that while none of these photos sho any actual dangly bits, they are most likely not safe for work As to your contention that nudity equates with sexualization, I heartily disagree with you. Nudity is neither a necessary, nor a sufficient condition for sexualization. If you so desire, I could debate you on this topic until people start begging us to post cat photos just for respite. If you need more for the sake of equity, I can point you to a couple of sets where I did the lighting and posing, because a friend wanted to photograph some nudes, and I was what was available as a model. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
