I wrote VAMPIRELLA OF DRAKULON #1-3 (Harris Comics, 1996). In the eighties in Berkeley, there was (and maybe still is) a "sex underground" newspaper called THE SPECTATOR. It was (or is) first the sleazy companion to THE BERKELEY BARB, the trend setting underground paper from the same company, then the BARB's replacement. Among other adventures described in my ongoing autobiography, posted at a host of T. Casey Brennan fan pages, I also worked as a nude model for art classes in bygone days. Berkeley's THE SPECTATOR coverfeatured my account of that career as "Nude Model Tells All" in their Vol. 5, No. 22, Issue 26, February 27 - March 5, 1981 issue. The article follows...for more on my comic book work which preceded it, check the links below:
For the past few years, I've supplemented my income as a free-lance writer by working for various art classes as a male nude model. I keep my body in good shape with daily exercise, consisting of Yoga postures, karate kicks and punches, and push-ups.
Most women who attend art classes are perfect ladies. Their interest in attending class is legitimate. They wish to learn how to draw. However, there is another factor present in certain classes I've done. Women who tease the model. Of course, they are a very, very small minority, but a very distracting minority nonetheless.
It seems there are certain women who cannot tolerate the sight of a nude man with a limp organ, and feel that they are obligated, by some unwritten code, to do something about it. I divide these teasers into several categories, although I've come across lady artists who have run the entire gamut of tricks described here, and then some.
These women will run their tongues seductively over their lips anytime the teacher isn't looking. This might be accompanied by a toss of the head, and concluded with the fewmale artist sucking her finger and looking longingly at the model's organ.
A nude model is highly embarrass when he becomes aroused sexually in an art class. Women who succeed in getting the model excited, usually will not let up. If they get it up, they feel justified in doing about anything to keep it up, from Class I through VI. This can make for occassional difficult situations.
Of course, the average art class is nothing like this at all. For both model and students, the average art class is an artistic, rather than a sexual or sensual experience. But on those occassions that a woman (or more than one woman at the same time!) decides to "tease the model", the job of a male nude model can be trying indeed.
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