I'll Pay You To Take Your Clothes Off

On monday I started the first day of the next four years of my life. At Art School.

I am no longer a little embarrased to say it in front of my parents friends and scornful adults alike that I go to such a place and really, I shouldn't have been in the first place, it's pretty effing amazing.

Now this fateful monday leads me to write to you as one of the ladies who was luring us into being members of art clubs stood up and as an after thought added "One of the most enjoyable and worthwhile things I did when I was at Art school was life modelling. It gave me great confidence and good money. You also get to go all over Canberra for it!"

Now, I know what you're thinking '"Life modelling" is that a new word for prostitue or something?' and as much as one might assume such lude things, I assure you it isn't.
Although you get paid (quite handsomely) to go around Canberra and exhibit yourself to a room full of people while they violate you with their eyes and hands (stricly to paper of course) I was interested to know that there is a shortage of female models and there's a rumor going round about $50 an hour.

So I wondered to myself - Could I be so bold as to take my clothes off in front of a room of art students? And perhaps not even budding artists but the general public?

I put myself in my own shoes and know that I don't, or try as hard as possible not to judge the life models, they are afterall amazing, confident people. Then I thought about the fact that i'd be nude infront of my peers... and thoughts strayed to how long the course is...

And four years is just a little too long for everyone you know at school to know what your vagina looks like.