Nude guys for women

It may not have broken the Internet, but a series of photos featuring Kim Kardashian full-frontal and, um, full-buttal, have caused quite a stir. But my reaction to the titillating photos, and indeed any female nudies, is a bit more crude: Why are there so few naked photos of men? The imbalance between female and male nudity in the media is well-documented to the point of being a cliche. And the prevailing notion is pretty simple: Women just look better naked than men. The curves.

Sexting is just one of those things that's going to happen, and there's no point denying it or trying to stop people from sending their sexy tests. The best thing we can do is educate people on how to do it safer, and to empower them only to send nudes or erotic pics if they're really comfortable, and actually want to. A Reddit user recently started an AskMen thread asking, "How important are naughty photos for a relationship? I am not talented and I suck at taking photos.

But this request, while still a meme, is no longer rhetorical. Millions of men and women around the world are sending nudes and without a shred of irony. The unstoppable rise of messaging and dating apps, lightning-fast wireless internet, and high-definition front- and rear-facing cameras on hand at every moment have, for better or worse, made digitizing our naked selves irresistible. Beyond confirming their ubiquity, we wanted to uncover the implications of requesting and receiving nudes. Are they the new normal and harmless fun or an ethical nightmare without an undo button?

For twelve months, the Paris photographer Laura Stevens transformed her bed into a stage set for a series of portraits, and more than fifty unnamed men agreed to pose nude on a single white sheet. In most cases, she had never met her subject prior to the shoot, but after some tea and conversation, a new collaboration was born. What motivated you to embark on this project? I find this reductive and too subjective, and I wanted to engage in finding my own way of looking at and portraying the man. One guy was sitting next to me metro who I found to be so beautiful I asked him if he would be interested in posing for me and if so to contact me.