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Nakedness - what else is there?
March 26, 2005
Today I spent most of my day naked but for a pair of six inch heels, doing a photo shoot in an abandoned house. You haven’t really learned to walk in six inch heels until you’ve walked over broken glass, mounds of crumbling plaster fallen from the ceiling and sagging abandoned furniture - falling would mean certain humiliation and likely tetanus. I was also reminded that though 40 degree weather feels lovely when I’m outside in the sun, it feels much less awesome when I’m naked in an abandoned building. I have gotten naked outdoors too many damned times this winter.
Despite the fact that after a while my hands felt like lobster claws and I was freezing my tits off, I spent a day doing some of my favorite things - being naked and making a mess. During one of our breaks, I told the photographer, “I really get sad thinking about a future in which I won’t get paid to be naked.” He quickly asked, “What else would you do?” and as the question came out, he realized he’d said it all wrong, and stammered, “I mean, I know you got the brains, but what else makes you happy?”
I’m not sure I’m as confident in the answer to that question as I once was.
In many ways, this mirrors a question my mom put to me yesterday, when I told her that I’m not as in love with my straight world career choices as I once was: “Are you just going to do porn forever?* That’s a pretty limited way to think about your future.”
Of course, I know I shouldn’t consciously limit my options and the spectrum of things I can do with myself - putting the requirement of “get paid for nakedness” on all of my future career choices is probably not the best idea. However, knowing that I want to have jobs that jibe with my political convictions and where I can voice my opinions freely is knowledge worth standing by.
*My parents know about my work in the off-camera parts of the porn industry. They don’t know that I get paid to be naked.
Posted by Dacia at March 26, 2005 08:46 PM
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Comments
Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.
Posted by: Oscar at July 29, 2006 03:54 AM
He who drinks too much beer must drink water.
Posted by: Marina at July 29, 2006 03:55 AM
