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do you ever take a nude and form a small crush on yourself
i was gonna leave this as a small joke, but you know what? no. it's time to get on my soap box for a second here. it's something i've talked about before, and it's something i'll talk about again:
nothing in the world has ever helped my self-confidence the way taking nudes has
nothing in the world has ever helped my self-confidence the way taking nudes has
taking nudes, whether it's for sex work or partners, had this interesting line of growth in me. at first, i'd only take "kind of" nudes, showing off the very few parts of my body i was actually comfortable with. this led me to feel better about the tiny details i /did/ appreciate
and as i started wanting to share those parts of me more, it became inevitable that i'd have to start sharing the things that made me more uncomfortable. how can i truly show how dynamite my hips are without coming to terms with the fact that i've got a big ole tummy?
so now, you have these parts of you that make you feel uncomfortable paired with these parts of you that you're finally learning to love, and sometimes you start to see that... maybe they're not different things, "parts," segments. they're all you
after that, the feelings get a lot more nebulous and much more difficult to put into words, but the last couple years have been a slow and uphill battle to start loving myself as a whole instead of cherry-picking the best and pretending those are the only things to me that exist
so, FUCK YEAH TAKE NUDES. they (and sex work in general) have been perhaps the most instrumental thing behind the sincere growth of my confidence and self-worth these past few years. i tried to "fake it til you make it" for the last decade, but /this/ is what truly worked for me
