-Titania- wrote:
My experience with the way many male 'models' behave on model mayhem would make me leery. "Nice Titties! I'd love to shove my face between them" isn't exactly what I'd call professional behavior.

Now, that being said, I have had a fabulous experience with a male model that the photographer that hired me vouched for.

The lesson?

Get yourself a good model that you can confidently vouch for and has good references.

I have one main guy that I use, he's been nothing but a complete gentleman.

-Titania- wrote:
My experience with the way many male 'models' behave on model mayhem would make me leery. "Nice Titties! I'd love to shove my face between them" isn't exactly what I'd call professional behavior.




I would knock that SOB out if a male model ever said something like that on my set. Although most of them can probably bench press me I would keep a Louieville Slugger real close by.

Alvah Burlas wrote:
I would knock that SOB out if a male model ever said something like that on my set. Although most of them can probably bench press me I would keep a Louieville Slugger real close by.

Gotta control your set, dude. People know automatically by the way you talk and carry yourself if they can run over you. This is why it pays to have a commanding presence.
People that work with me will say "oh he's comical, but he don't take no mess."

theda wrote:
Anyway, as someone else in the thread pointed out, a number of the male "models" you run into on model mayhem are really just GWCs without the C.  I've never had a female model or a photographer PM me just to "get to know me," but male models seem to do it pretty often.  I can just imagine many more I would get if I were friendly and approachable and had massive tetas.

Thats true. I have been approached for way more nude with guy shoots than I have done. Why? Because its the male model who starts asking retarded stuff like, "Want me to send you nude pics in advance ?" and "Wanna go out for a drink before hand?"

I am just picky about it. I have done one complete shoot over two days nude with a male model. He was the perfect gentleman the entire time. But I would be hesitant to do it with any random person. I would def be scoping out their port, talking to the photographer, getting references, etc.

Ash Turner wrote:
Because posing nude alone is one thing.

But posing nude with a male that you've never met is another. It just takes a new level of comfort and a lot of people don't have that. I know I don't.

What if it was with a girl?

Fotographia Fantastique wrote:
It's a strange thing I remember once a model got suddenly offended and broke off all communication at the mere suggestion of shooting nudes with a male model - and she was a very experienced nude model who had posed with other (female) models on numerous occasions.

Welcome to my world.

Vasilisa 2 wrote:
I personally don't have a problem with it and did when I wasn't with my boyfriend - while he understands on an intellectual level that nothing's happening and it's just work, on an emotional level he doesn't want other guys touching my naked body so I respect that.

Same for me, but even when I have posed nude with male models in the past I insisted on meeting them before the shoot.

theda wrote:
Anyway, as someone else in the thread pointed out, a number of the male "models" you run into on model mayhem are really just GWCs without the C.  I've never had a female model or a photographer PM me just to "get to know me," but male models seem to do it pretty often.  I can just imagine many more I would get if I were friendly and approachable and had massive tetas.

I quote every single word!

I really like - love! - to do nudes and I'm now planning my very first girl/girl nude set which would be tasteful and not nasty at all

But with a male model..uhm..I don't think I would say 'yes' for now: I don't have that level of self-confidence, plus I must admit that my boyfriend - who has never interferred with my modeling 'career' - wouldn't be happy at all

Chick Habit wrote:

What if it was with a girl?

Well that's a whole other story.
Posting with another female would be easier for myself because she has the same stuff as me

Ash Turner wrote:

Well that's a whole other story.
Posting with another female would be easier for myself because she has the same stuff as me

Again, girls on my set turn out to be more sexually aggressive around other nude females than guys are clothed.

Chick Habit wrote:

Again, girls on my set turn out to be more sexually aggressive around other nude females than guys are clothed.

I suspect that's because they know they can. It isn't just you; I think that society encourages women to dictate the level of sexual aggression. When men do it, they appear to be oafish.

FWIW, I would like to pose nude with a nude woman. I would also like to pose nude with a nude woman while under water. FYI, women are not lining up for this opportunity.

Yoann Montout wrote:
I thaught it would have been the contrary coz we got more to worry about self control and discomfort hehe! :p

That depends on attitude. When I was 20, I would not have done it. Even at 30, it was daring and risque, and even after I accepted it, I would have been mortified if my penis had erected during a shoot. Now, I'm more often of the attitude that it is no more significant than whether I sneeze or my skin changes color. It is just a reaction that I can ignore if I choose to do so. Of course, I can choose not to ignore it, too. The key point is, what can you ignore and still do your job?

Chick Habit wrote:
*There was supposed to be a "?" at the end but I ran out of room*

Maybe it's just the region I'm in, but I'm noticing a great "discomfort" when trying to get female models to pose nude with nude male models. Now before it gets ugly, no there's no "porn feel" or shady negotiations, I lay everything on the line (no penetration, no touching of private parts, safe secure environment, proper compensation) yet it's still met with great "apprehension."

But yet, take the male model out and add a nude female (that being two nude female models) and there's no apprehension or concern. Though my experience in shooting two nude females together have been that there's more flirting, touching, groping, kissing, etc... than any male model that's ever worked for me in such a situation has ever done. In fact I only had one guy do that and he was quickly kicked off the set after a warning.

What gives?

well, if it's not trashy...i think the idea is beautiful.
now let's get naked.

but honestly, i think that even if the photog lays it all on the line some are still concerned about the professionalism of the other model.
honestly...i'd love to have some beautiful nude couples shots in my port.
it's art!
i saw one so good 3 days ago i almost cried!

Chick Habit wrote:
*There was supposed to be a "?" at the end but I ran out of room*

Maybe it's just the region I'm in, but I'm noticing a great "discomfort" when trying to get female models to pose nude with nude male models. Now before it gets ugly, no there's no "porn feel" or shady negotiations, I lay everything on the line (no penetration, no touching of private parts, safe secure environment, proper compensation) yet it's still met with great "apprehension."

But yet, take the male model out and add a nude female (that being two nude female models) and there's no apprehension or concern. Though my experience in shooting two nude females together have been that there's more flirting, touching, groping, kissing, etc... than any male model that's ever worked for me in such a situation has ever done. In fact I only had one guy do that and he was quickly kicked off the set after a warning.

What gives?

I'm happy to pose with the right male model.

I agree that the stereotype of it being ok for females to be more sexual in shoots isn't right, the lines should be the same for any coupled photo shoot.

theda wrote:
I'm guessing that you mostly meet with that apprehension from straight females. A lot of people think being naked with their preferred gender is inherently sexual, but getting naked with another girl is like a slumber party.

I've done nudes with about 12 male models. I've only found it uncomfortable twice and on both occasions it was because the photographer was trying to direct us into more sexual poses than i was comfortable with.  The first time the photographer just assumed that because we were posing together nude, we must be a couple.  The second time both the photographer and I had been hired by the male model and I suspect he told her to shoot one thing and told me something quite different.

Anyway, as someone else in the thread pointed out, a number of the male "models" you run into on model mayhem are really just GWCs without the C.  I've never had a female model or a photographer PM me just to "get to know me," but male models seem to do it pretty often.  I can just imagine many more I would get if I were friendly and approachable and had massive tetas.