Is it normal my husband is pressurising me to work as a nude model
My husband goes to an art class one evening a week. He came home a couple of months ago and told me they were looking for artist models to sit for 4 or 5 classes a week for a few weeks. It was a temporary, short term, casual arrangement for clothed models, £9.00 per hour cash in hand, mostly 2 hour sessions. He said I should apply, the money would definitely come in handy, as I had recently lost my job, but I've never done anything like that and was reluctant. He went on about it, and how I had posed for him to draw me previously, and that I'd been really good at staying still and holding a pose. I kept saying that was different posing for him, but he said it wasn't. The following week, he came home from his class and told me they were still looking for models and he had made an arrangement for me to go and meet with his tutor the following day. I was furious and we rowed, but in the end he convinced me to go. The tutor was really nice, we talked about when I had sat for my husband and he asked me to come back a couple of days later and sit for a class. I was nervous but when I did it I actually quite enjoyed it. Since then I have sat for a few classes every week, and have also been asked to sit for classes for other tutors.
The problem is one of the other tutors has asked if I will do nude modeling for his life classes. To me this is something totally different and I don't want to do it. It's more money and I have been told it will lead to a lot more work. Posing clothed is in much less demand and they have not booked me for as many classes the last couple of weeks. My husband found out I have been asked to do this and now he is pressurising me to do it. It's one thing to sit with my clothes on with strangers looking intently at me, but to do it naked is a different thing all together. Am I being selfish by refusing this work, I know it puts more pressure on my husband to do extra hours if I don't, and he already works so hard. But he's not the one being asked to take his clothes off.
| Am I being selfish, and should just get on with it and stop complaining? | 9 | |
| Should I try it, to see if it's as bad as I imagine? | 4 | |
| Should I refuse to do it? | 12 |