Persuasive Essay About Sex

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When I was 20-years-old, I posed nude for a photographer friend of mine. He needed a model for an assignment in his advanced photography class. It was an assignment in working outside your comfort zone and they were required to shoot a nude model. My boyfriend at the time and I were best friends with the photographer and his girlfriend. The photographer felt too uncomfortable to ask me and so his girlfriend was the one that texted me asking if I would do it. She was nervous about him using a model (they’d had trust issues for a long time and their relationship had dwindled over the last 4 years). She knew that he was already familiar with me and said that she would feel more comfortable if she knew the model he would be shooting. I immediately said yes. I had always wanted to do a nude shoot or pose for an art class. I was very comfortable with my body at that time. My boyfriend and I had had sex together for the first time only a month ago and I feeling extra sexy and wanted to express it. …show more content…

I had an extreme fear of pregnancy and had always felt a lot of guilt about sex. It took a very long time to get over this fear and stigma. For those 10 months, I was treated as the token “virgin” in our group conversations. We would play Cards Against Humanity and they would make little quips here and there about sex and try to make me feel uncomfortable. I wasn’t uncomfortable with sex. I just hadn’t “truly” experienced it yet and was therefore not included. I felt like I had something to prove by doing this photoshoot. By shooting for the photographer (whose approval I always felt I needed to receive) I wanted to show him what he was missing out on and how lucky my boyfriend was. “So sorry you’re relationship is shit. Too bad you can’t have me because I would rock your fuckin world. We could have an affair and then I would drop your ass in a

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