Thanks for reading my memoir!
I know it is moving a little slower than many of the stories you read on here.
Please keep in mind that this story is all true, so it may not be as exciting as a fictional account (many of which are kind of silly and would never happen IRL).
I am sure that the fact that everything I am telling you here actually happened to me will make you just as titillated as it did for me when I got to re-live it as I wrote it.
The story actually gets much spicier beginning in this chapter, once I pass my eighteenth birthday.
There is absolutely zero opportunity for a 15-year-old nude model. Legally, at least, not unless you want to lie about your age and pose for pornos. I spent the last two summers of high school working to make some extra money for college. I missed posing, but Uncle Jimmy, Erin and Cathy had moved on. Chrissy was the only one left living with grandma.
Actually, Chrissy went on to college on an arts scholarship and she became a professional artist and later an art professor. I like to think I was one of the ones that inspired her to follow that path.
My first year at the University was a nightmare. I was in way over my head. When I wasn't studying, I was worrying about my grades. I never really even thought about posing that first year, even though I am sure I could have gotten a job at the art department.
The first week of the new school year (my sophomore year), I was sitting in the cafeteria having lunch with everyone from the floor, including my only friend, Jerry, and his girlfriend. Of course, I did not have a girlfriend, and would not have one for the entire four years of college.
"I'm so damn tired of bein' broke." Translation: I need more beer money. Jerry always drank Old Milwaukee because it was the cheapest beer he could find.
"The art department is hiring." Jerry's girlfriend Melisa seemed like she was waiting for Jerry to complain about being broke so she could bring this up. I got the impression that they'd had this conversation previously. Jerry didn't answer, he just kept eating.
"Yeah, the art department is paying good money for art models to pose nude." Melisa had a plan, setting up Jerry for the kill.
"I'm not gonna pose nude." Jerry was very forceful. The tone he took said this was not his first time saying this.
"Yeah, you really gotta have confidence to pose nude - you really hafta have a huge cock. You're right, Jerr, you don't qualify." The table roared at Melisa's burn.
I don't have a huge cock, but I knew I was a good model. I walked straight from the cafeteria to the art building and applied.
The auditions were held a week later. I mention this because this is the first and only time I had to audition for a life model job. Maybe it's because I have so much experience, but no one has ever asked me to audition, to pose, to get any job since. Over the years, I went to many interviews expecting to have to pose, but no one ever asked me to. I never really understood why not.
The actual audition was probably the most interesting part of my university modeling career, so I'll tell you about it.
When I showed up at the room they had told me to audition, there were six instructors from the art department. There were 14 female applicants and six males.
Interestingly, they split us up by male and female, and the three male instructors took the male applicants to a separate room. There was no verbal interview, the male applicants would pose for the male instructors and the females would pose for the female instructors.
I never understood that. We were all applying to pose nude for an audience of both male and female students. Why did we need to be afraid of posing in front of each other? Made no sense.
Anyway, the instructions were that we were to assume ten poses and hold each of them for 30 seconds each. Gesture poses. My favorites. When they said there'd be an audition, I came up with a few ideas in my head. They were going to evaluate on our creativity, the artistry in our poses, and our ability to hold a pose. I knew if they planned to hire any males, I would be one of them. There was no way any of these guys were going to beat me.
When it came my turn to pose, I went to the changing room at the back of the room, took off all my clothes and put on the flannel shirt I'd brought. They'd said to bring a robe, but I did not own a robe, so I brought my longest flannel shirt, which was not long enough.
When I got to the dais, I could tell the instructors did not approve of my lack of a robe, but they told me to go ahead and pose.
I began with a couple standing poses and with each subsequent pose, I moved closer to the dais. My poses were challenging and dynamic. Uncle Jimmy and the girls had taught me well. My tenth and last pose consisted of me sitting with my shins on the dais, my butt on the dais, leaning back to lay my shoulder blades on the dais, with both my arms over my head and my hands and wrists on the dais. I held that pose for over two minutes, until one of the instructors thanked me. I'm sure they wanted to see if I could hold it. I could.
As I was getting up, I heard at least two people say, 'Wow!' It sounded like they were trying to say it under their breath, but it just came out. That was quite a reaction coming from this crowd. In my experience, young men are so afraid to appear to be a homosexual that they will do anything to avoid a nude male physique. One of the instructors actually clapped.
I jumped off the dais and walked back to the changing room without putting the shirt on.
About a week later, the administrative assistant for the art department called my dorm room. My roommate answered and the admin told him she was looking for me to offer me a position as a nude model for the art department. That information would find its way to the rest of my dorm's floor and provide lots of entertainment for Jerry and the few friends I had in college.
Of course, I was out studying when she called, so I had to call her back. When I did, she told me I had the job and I would be contacted by the modeling coordinator concerning my first class. She also mentioned that I needed to buy a robe and that wearing it was a requirement at all times I was not on the dais. I figured the instructors had told her to say that.