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[amolitor]

My wife likes the nudes I've shot of her, and of me. All in the "tasteful" category, but "tasteful" of dudes is just plain tough. Either you've got some guy with his shirt off (what's risque about THAT?!) or you've got his junk in there. I guess you could do butts, for some kind of middle ground? Not MY butt, which is not particularly pleasing.

My wife is pretty open minded, though.

ETA: The gay community does some excellent work with male nudes, not surprisingly. Not all of them are gay stereotypes, either. I've seen some excellent work of pretty ordinary looking guys.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Just a question....
How many guys here would love to get boudoir pictures from a wife or GF?
Do guys really want these as a gift?

That depends on who's wife or girlfriend it is.

 

[pgriz]

Actually, I've been a model for my wife, who's an amazing artist in various media. For figure studies, she uses charcoal or conté, and her models are part of her regular posing workshop, where she and other artists use paid models). When we were much younger, we did a number of photographs and sketches of each other, mostly as studies in form, curve and light. Some of those ended up in her exhibited work. A few years ago, one of my adult daughters found a portfolio case containing material from that particular art period, and was intrigued (I think that's the word) that the various curves and discreet body shapes were that of her parents. Nowadays, there's more sag than tone, but she still takes my breath away each and every time I see her - sometimes the surface only obscures the radiance within.

 

[Big Mike]

Men's bodies are utilitarian, like a flatbed truck. Women's bodies are divine artistic creations, more like a sports car. Much more of a market for photos of sports cars than flatbed trucks.

I'm wondering if the OP is old enough to remember this...http://www.mostlyposters.com/images/posters/fullsize/46525.jpg

 

[rexbobcat]

Men's bodies are utilitarian, like a flatbed truck. Women's bodies are divine artistic creations, more like a sports car. Much more of a market for photos of sports cars than flatbed trucks.

I'm wondering if the OP is old enough to remember this...http://www.mostlyposters.com/images/posters/fullsize/46525.jpg

I don't remember it per se, but that is one sexy photo of George Costanza.

I just find it kind of intriguing how the female form lends itself better to art than the male form. Male bodies seems more likely to appear pornographic than artistic.

Surely there is some way that the male form can be rendered in the same light (not literally) as the female.

I also find it weird how there isn't much of a niche market for this even though it doesn't seem all that unusual. Especially in an era when people are buying snuggies and professionally done birthing photos (no offense to anyone who actually does do that).

 

[rexbobcat]

I've a photographer friend in NYC who has done a couples session or two she says STEAMY! I am seeing more and more of people looking for it. The problem comes in the wording and the asking coupled with our society these days. It SOUNDS like porn usually!
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I've never done a male shoot, but damn I would love to! LOL! I am thinking a Valentines mini day???? Hmmmm, men aren't into the sexy "experience" with a bunch of guys, so it'd have to be on game day with a big screen TV and a keg in the 'experience room' instead of champagne, finger foods and chocolate... Maybe I could rent out a firehouse for the party... This could be fun!

What if the guy was gay (as in "football no thanks...") I know that's stereotypical. It's just for argument's sake)? lol How would you handle that?

 

[Macdoodle]

Seems men's bodies were more in fashion before pants and beer bellies-
https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/sculpture/default1.htm

and while this is humorous , if it was a man it would be creepy ( due to societal influences)
Sculpture Of Giant Bather Presented In Hamburg - Pictures - Zimbio

 

[mishele]

Just a question....
How many guys here would love to get boudoir pictures from a wife or GF?
Do guys really want these as a gift?

That depends on who's wife or girlfriend it is.

This^^^lol Am I that far off the mark believing that guys only think boudoir photos are sexy because they are pictures of hot chicks they don't know?
Chicks get boudoir photos done to up their own self esteem. They want to look hot. Which there is nothing wrong w/, but it's not totally for the guy.

 

[MLeeK]

I've a photographer friend in NYC who has done a couples session or two she says STEAMY! I am seeing more and more of people looking for it. The problem comes in the wording and the asking coupled with our society these days. It SOUNDS like porn usually!
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I've never done a male shoot, but damn I would love to! LOL! I am thinking a Valentines mini day???? Hmmmm, men aren't into the sexy "experience" with a bunch of guys, so it'd have to be on game day with a big screen TV and a keg in the 'experience room' instead of champagne, finger foods and chocolate... Maybe I could rent out a firehouse for the party... This could be fun!

What if the guy was gay (as in "football no thanks...") I know that's stereotypical. It's just for argument's sake)? lol How would you handle that?

I am not doing a gay guy day here. That would be a WHOLE LOT EASIER than the straight male day!

 

[21limited]

How many guys here would love to get boudoir pictures from a wife or GF?

Of who? if she finds out who's boudoir pictures I want there's gonna be a fight. Just saying. Our problem is making sure the pictures we have are never seen by our children. We've already had a "What the hell is that picture doing on your wall" response for a very tasteful, classical shot. I guess no one ever wants to see a picture of mom's boobies no matter how tasteful.But I digress, what was the question again? oh ya, I remember now , wait until she gets home, I'll ask her. We used to have a picture with a certain portion of my anatomy exposed hanging on the wall in our dining room. It took quite a while to convince her it wasn't what guests wanted to look at while eating dinner. It took one set of guests who never came back or said another word to us after one such dinner. Of course that could also be because of the horrible case of the flu I gave them, not knowing I was contagious. That flu was the one where for 24 hours you feel like you'd be taking the easy way out if you just died, but you wished you would just die anyway.. I'd describe it further but this is getting to be a long way from the original topic, so maybe I'll just stop here and head off to bed.

 

[pic_chick]

thinking about it way back in the day think Rome some very sexy male statues where craved that are well loved and not pron like at all.. David for exp..... I think it would be very cool to pull from those works for a sexy male photo shoot.

 

[amolitor]

The idea that the penis is "pornographic" and that breasts are "not pornographic" is both a real thing, and a pretty modern idea. I don't think there's anything inherently more or less attractive about the male versus female form, but we do labor under some social constructs that make it appear that way.

That said, again, there's some excellent male nudes being made even today, mostly by the gay community. Generally you use more dramatic lighting, Caravaggio styled and with fewer light modifiers. The sharper shadow edges and deeper shadows work well with ideas of masculinity, and the deep shadows can be used to tone down the "pornographic" elements, which leaving the figure still nude.

 

[TheFantasticG]

That depends on who's wife or girlfriend it is.

Yup. My wife wouldn't want them.

 

[unpopular]

regarding 'boudoir', I think a man's 'sulking place' would be in his garage....

 

[bentcountershaft]

Just a question....
How many guys here would love to get boudoir pictures from a wife or GF?
Do guys really want these as a gift?

That depends on who's wife or girlfriend it is.

This^^^lol Am I that far off the mark believing that guys only think boudoir photos are sexy because they are pictures of hot chicks they don't know?
Chicks get boudoir photos done to up their own self esteem. They want to look hot. Which there is nothing wrong w/, but it's not totally for the guy.

I thought maybe you were offering to send me some of your own boudoir shots and were just being coy about it. No luck for me this week.