Reporter Poses Nude For Art Class - He Is Worried About Getting Erection

[matcom]

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"OK, John, whenever you're ready."

UW-Madison art professor Pat Fennell calls to me behind a closed door. I stand nearly naked and alone in a small storage room on the sixth floor of the Humanities Building.

Behind me hang two skeletons and to my right is a latex- covered mannequin with mismatched eyes. It is lifelike enough to have startled me when I entered this de facto "getting naked" room, and the mannequin's removable male crotch lies askew on a chair.

Fennell gave me a folded sheet to sit on for hygenic purposes. I use it as a shield for my most private area. My hand is on the door.

I am about to pose nude for so 20 or so UW students - all strangers - so they can draw me. Then they'll post their work on the sixth floor of the Humanities Building's architectural maze.

Why am I doing this job? I'm not an exhibitionist. I don't even particularly like being nude. I get cold easily and I'm usually the last person in a room to take off his coat. The answer: It's a part-time job paying $13 per hour.

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This is when I begin to envy the crotchless mannequin. I'm worried about an erection. The experience does not arouse me, but a university art class is not a clinical environment.

I stand for the second pose and I immediately become alarmed. Fennell has a four-foot, bright red horse rider's crop. It turns out to be a pointer that she uses as a guide to help the students get my proportions correct. Still, she wields it with a mixture of embarassment and amusement - the first day ends uneventfully with two easy poses of my choice.

During one of them I notice that the room has a skylight as well as a footlight. I can see people going by on the sidewalk many stories below.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/features/index.php?ntid=60554

[Floogeldy]

1. Thanks for the festive visual.

:eyes:

;)

[trof]

2. I posed semi-nude. Erection not a problem.

Also for an art class.
My buddy's mother's.
I was 19 or 20.
I did have a problem with drenching sweat.
;-)

[edbermac]

3. Think of Ann Coulter naked...

That should keep you...relaxed...

[Fox Mulder]

4. Did you see the two women in the photo on the website?

If I had them looking at me like that...watch out.

:blush:

[LSK]

5. really testing the "sex threads" limits arnt you?

:D

[WindRavenX]

6. um, just "take care of stuff" before you model

I mean, right?

[ContraBass Black]

8. Not really.

At least, not for me.

[WindRavenX]

9. how old are you?

Because if you're 18-20, the refractory period is like, 45 minutes...I could see that..

[ContraBass Black]

11. I'm 20

And it's 7 minutes. :D


"Jeeze honey, already?"

:rofl:

[WindRavenX]

12. damn

Well, my guy is on Paxil, soooo...I have to wait a while ;)

[Deja Q]

7. Who needs Ann Coulter, this works better:

[supernova]

10. OWWWWW! MY EYES!

Good grief, HT, I'm trying to have supper over here! x(

[undeterred]

13. He wrote the story but I don't think he's a reporter-

just a student doing it for the money.

[baldguy]

14. Ann Coulter, Katherine Harris, old Barbara Bush...

Ann Coulter, Katherine Harris, old Barbara Bush...Ann Coulter, Katherine Harris, old Barbara Bush...

[latebloomer]

15. Harriet Miers, Harriet Miers, old Barbara Bush n/t

[kwassa]

16. I never posed nude in a high rise

Though I did work part time as a nude model for art classes. The most difficult time for me was when I modeled with a beautiful nude woman, and they posed us with, um, skin contact involved.

Most of the rooms are not heated properly; it was too cold for me in the winter. I gave it up ...