Hey, all, thanks for the support on the situation with my mom. She's actually pretty cool about it my modeling. It's just that she has this issue with nudity (specifically, mine.)
Her whole thing is that she's afraid of me being hit on by gay guys (as if i'd be like "alright, dude! let's go fuck!"). Like, she's afraid that the photographer might be gay and start harassing me, or that my pictures will end up somewhere where gay guys might see it and get turned on by me (*cough* SB *cough*). Of course her biggest thing is tha she's afraid i'll have some pictures end up in a gay publication or some ther really stupid paranoid bullshit like that. The worst was when she said (and i'm totally quoting and totally not kidding) that she was afraid i'd get off a bus in NYC and get gang raped. What the hell does that have to do with modeling?
First off, especially now that i'm going to be trying to get paid for modeling in general, i'm going to be DAMNED careful of who i shoot with and i'm going to make sure oftheir reputation, I'm going to be going thru an agency with offices all over the coutry, so it's in their best interests to give me work with someone reputable anyway, so that should mostly be covered. Also, if the publication is questionable and/or just not something i'm comfortable with, then i'm going to turn the job down. I'm not gay and i don't want to represent myself like that so my being in a gay publication is HIGHLY unlikely.
Second of all, if people get truend on by looking at me i can't really control that, no matter how i pose, nude or not. I could be standing still in a completely neutral pose fully clothed from head to toe, but that might turn someone on, male or female, just because they like how i look. It's all subjective so that doesn't even matter. And besides, dammit they'd BETTER get turned on.
Anyway, she's just being a typically paranoid mom. She'll ge over it. What i'd like to do is send her a framed picture of something really artistic that i did so that she can see that nudity does not equal porn. Sigh...
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thedishwasher:
as in, my b/f;s friend is a member and is apparently giving my b/f access to see my journal and pics, not a big deal except, i was smoking in one of my pics, and my b/f is totally against... so im like being spied on, which yeah i shouldnt have smoked, but really, if thats the worst thing ive done in the relationship i dont think i should be spied on anyway
cheech:
There's one good way to calm your mom. Yes- carry an Uzi. And a grenade-launcher.