My wife was taking a photography course to complete the last requirements of for her MFA. They paired off the students to work together, she was 40 at the time, the rest were college age of course, she paired with this young guy. They had to do the usual, nature studies, still life and human form. The human form didn't have to be nudes, but they were encouraged by all the Profs examples, that seemed like what the old pervert liked.
They had a studio available at the college, but it was in the same space at the darkroom, this was pre-digital, so if you were doing nudes, people were coming and going through the area. Our house had a north facing room upstairs, so it was ideal to set up as a studio, she bought some 2nd hand lights and reflectors.
One day when I came home my wife showed me all the prints she had made of her work, she didn't tell me that she had her shoot with Jeff, the partner, the previous week. I asked her why didn't she tell me, she said it would have made me horny and she didn't want to be distracted, true. She had about a 20 prints of herself, the ones Jeff shot and developed, and a lot more of Jeff that she did. It was obvious that they did mostly nudes, Jeff was braver than my wife, she asked him not to use any shot where her butt, boobs or bush was exposed, she was teaching elementary school at the time, Jeff gave her no restrictions.
Let's say Jeff was normally equipped and the ones he printed of my wife were the ones that he couldn't use by her restrictions. Of course I wanted to know if there was and extracurricular activity, she said there was a little nervousness at first, but once they got into the business of the shoot, it was all work.
We went to the exhibit they always have for the students, the ones Jeff used may have had a naked hip, thigh or side-boob of my wife, but I learned that most of the students had no restrictions or inhibitions, not unusual for art majors.
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