Life drawing.
I can't speak for the model but it's not sexy.
There's an initial awkwardness if one isn't used to it but generally it's fairly boring as the nudity is during the actual poses and they are fairly static for a quite long time, depending on what the exercise is (ie short sketches/studies or more detailed.)
Disrobing is done behind a screen, as that strangely is the actual awkward part, into a robe which comes off for the poses and sometimes stays off between sometimes, but one gets used to talking to a nude person. It's quite unsexual. And most of one's time is spent drawing (or whatever), women are mostly curves and so tutors tend to encourage sweeping gestures so detail and stucying of parts is usually quite clinuical and things like getting hands right...or ear lobes. And even when one is drawing the interesting parts one is as much interested in 'the negative' spaces' and their relation to the whole.
The models seem to be unusual and exceptional people, though, very interesting with slightly outre life-styles, and despite this threads theme mostly male.
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