Nude art modeling takes:

You picked a hard road to travel down.
Nude art modeling takes:

Flexibility: to bend your body into poses that others can only dream of
Strength: to hold those difficult poses
Disregard for local laws: to pose in public places
Mild insanity: because you know that posing under a bridge 100 feet above a cement riverbed is a once in a lifetime shot.
Masochism: because the next day your body is so sore yet you do it over and over and over again week after week after week.

At the end of the day when someone asks you what you do for a living you mutter something about being an independent contractor... Because no matter how much pain you put your body through being called a whore just hurts more than any of the scrapes, bruises, sprains we suffer gladly through for our art.

*oodles of hugs to Shandra*

Viva la revolution!!!!