Recently I decided to post online pics of me nude. Nothing too explicit though and the pics were heavily filtered, but one could see or imagine my fully naked body. I've posted this with other of my photographs on a Tumblr blog and said to my friends I had a new blog warning them there were some "nude" pictures of me. I'm almost forty, and I've always had a terrible impression of my body, and I am sorry for being so "phallocentric", but the only part of it I'm not ashamed of is... you get it. I've had what can be qualified as a rich sexual life for now, and that's my best argument. That's not the point of this blog note.
So I let friends of mine discover my blog, knowing that some of them would see me naked. SG is a place where nudity is not rude; I can't say that my pics are great or even nice but you know that photography and nudity work fine together. There is a girl (a woman now) I was in love with more than 20 years ago. Nothing happened as we were young, love is not always reciprocal. We are now very close friends, and we regularly send emails to each other. In a recent email, she told me she knew I had a "dark side" and that it was not secret anymore. She was, of course, referring to the pictures I had posted online. I was at the same time embarrassed and happy. I'm happy and in a certain way proud of daring to show these pics to real life friends. And I have the feeling I should be embarrassed because maybe I made some friends uncomfortable with that.
You are numerous here to have publicly nude pics of you. How do your friends react? Are you sometimes embarrassed?
caraphernelia:
I never felt embarrassed, but proud. those who tried to make me uncomfrotable with it are not part of my life anymore. I do it for so many reasons that I tend to forget that I am nude in the pictures. :)
mryome:
Thank you for your reply. Receiving positive feedback makes me more at ease with my (naked) body.