Eric and Sally had been together for some time, three years to be exact and had started living together for five months now. It was all good at the beginning, they felt ready, and after all that time to live together looked quite natural or so it seemed. They had great chemistry together, connected in many ways, shared common interests and both were very tranquil persons, not the party animal type but the modest stay at home during weekends type of people, they were young and happy and to be fair sex was great, apparently. But, just a couple of weeks into it, Sally realized there was a tiny problem. She not only wanted, but needed more, she had unfulfilled fantasies and thoughts that she wasn't ready to admit but that she wanted to complete; you see, she really enjoyed contemplating naked men. She felt fascinated with the beauty of nudity in general but there was something that made her shiver when it came about a naked man, and it wasn't only about a penis, it was about everything that meant for a man to disrobe both physically and metaphorically.
She had always been interested in arts but she felt like there wasn't enough representation of great male nudity on contemporary art, it was not like she wanted to boycott every art gallery but she would love to contribute and though she would consider herself a closeted voyeur, she would admit that she thought of herself as too shy to give it a try in real life. As a graphic designer, painter and photographer she had to proposed herself to give a try on male nudity again, she remembered with joy the anatomical drawing classes on college and the admiration she felt for the models that participated. She wanted to feel that rush again but she wouldn't really feel sure about actually doing something like that, after all she was happily together with Eric, and now he was the only man she wanted to stare at, but there lied the problem, Eric was too modest and shy to showcase himself naked aside from shower time and sporadic sex. And that was starting to desperate Sally. It was not like she wanted to have sex 24/7 or that she wanted to push Eric, but she definitely wanted more, to explore and experiment with Eric, she loved him deeply and she found him captivating, and wished him to understand how beautiful he was, therefore she started thinking about empowering him, to make him realize how beautiful he was and how he shouldn't feel ashamed or uncomfortable with his nudity in their privacy. It was gonna be complicated.
Maybe she wouldn't have realized this problem hadn't it been for her dear friend Lara. She was her bubbly, outgoing and joyful coworker, well, more than that she was her friend. They both had started in the same publishing company at very similar times 4 years ago, Lara did it first and was very kind and welcoming towards Sally when she arrived, they bonded very quickly, even when they were a little different. Lara wasn't a party animal either but she definitely enjoyed going out and partying from time to time, she also seemed to be very proud of having a healthy, responsible and very active sexual life and felt not shame on sharing a little bit of ot to her coworkers, specially to Sally who would always hear delighted and feel excited to try a couple of such descriptions with Eric, whom would try to comply but not really enjoyed anything too exotic for him. Lara was the one that noticed Sally's special fixation with the male form.
It all started one day Lara was invited by her friend Nat to assist her as an art director in a photoshoot. Nat was a great photographer who was very talented and creative, she specialized in portrait photography but she had a new project coming on, she didn't comment a lot on it to Lara who accepted right away because she really liked art directing. She asked Nat if a friend of her could attend as well, to which Lara responded, "Of course, as long as she is not close minded". Lara said yes and hope it wasn't something very explicit because she didn't know how comfortable Sally would be with certain types of shoots, but she wanted to inspire her to get back into photography as before. She knew Sally wanted to go back into it, didn't know exactly what kind of photography but whatever it was, she new Sally would be amazing since she had great taste and sensibility , so going together into the photoshoot may inspire her.
When they arrived Lara introduced them both and they clicked immediately as well, they chatted for some minutes before Nat said, "We're just waiting for our models to arrive, they should be here in couple minutes or so they said."
