Did Posing Naked For A Magazine Fuck Up Your Life?

Asshole

[quote] It did stop him from becoming a dental tech and later a nurse.

Bullshit.

How did it stop him from being a dental tech?

I mean, I can see people questioning a decision to pose nude if, say, you run for US Senator, but not getting a job as a dental tech?

Asshole? Did one of those hypotheticals present hole?

R3 exactly.

Or if the dude was trying to be a teacher, maybe I could see that. Although we HAD a female teacher who posed for Playboy in the late 70s and they hired her, anyway.

Scott Brown naked if not totally nude in Cosmo, 1982.

Former US Senator (briefly) and currently US Ambassador to New Zealand.

When my youthful indiscretions leaked 2 decades later, I lost my professorship at Cambridge and was kicked off the boards of several corporations. They said it wasn't so much the nudity, but the vulgarity of my incommensurate endowment.

Op here. Typo. I meant to write that POSING NSKED IN ADVOCATE MEN DID NOT, I REPEAT, DID NOT STOP MY FD FRIEND FROM BECOMING A DENTAL TECH AND LATER A NURSE. He is a wonderful man with a very successful career. Sorry for upsetting everyone.

I remember years ago a friend in San Francisco had an unveiling party of his spread in one of the male magazines of the time. We all ended up sipping cocktails and commenting on his rosebud.

Big-dicked guys tend to want everyone to know about it.

R8 You didn't upset anyone. Your typo (not ours; YOURS) changed the entire meaning of what you wrote, short-circuiting the point you were trying - though God knows why - to make. To wit: neither example you offered turned out to have fucked up either of their lives. So why tell us?

Don't blame your readers for your inability to communicate.

I'm sorry there's no non-gross way to let people know you have a big penis.

Oh, R11's not upset. It was a typo and he apologized.

Why are Americans so up tight about nudity?

I have a friend who was in a magazine, on a deck of cards and featured in a calendar (all nude).

He had a pretty serious role in academia and is now in a leadership role at a startup.

r1: get over it. OP apologized.

Sorry, now it's MY turn to apologize: I meant r11.

Anybody done or know anybody who's done TubTime with Tate? Mostly gay men.

Or posed for this guy? Seems to have sketched half of Hell's Kitchen.

It can only fuck up your life when you let it be something (like a dirty, shameful secret) that can fuck up your life. Transparency and a support system will provide you with a life and career without fear of losing it all when something from your past gets revealed.

I had a professor in law school who posed for Playboy a few decades ago. She's open about it and it hasn't hurt her career. She's considered one of the top academics in her specialty.

Wow, it seems like all of us have some sort of story about someone in academia posing nude.

I work for a MAJOR university and have now worked with two professors who have posed for Playgirl to get through school.

I always thought it was a weird coincidence, but from what I have read here so far, I guess not.

So bizarre because academics are usually so nerdy and skinny.

It certainly wouldn't stop you from becoming First Lady.

[quote]Big-dicked guys tend to want everyone to know about it.

I was thinking about this the other day ... of course in the past, there was no way for men to show (in most situations) the size of their endowment -- unlike women with large breasts. Now that there are more culturally acceptable ways of doing so, a lot of well-hung men are embracing the concept. And we should all be thankful!

President Lyndon Johnson wanted everyone to see "Jumbo." Everyone.

r24 FTW!

A dude I went to high school with posed nude for a magazine, can't remember which one. He was 100% straight and thought the pics were for a bodybuilding magazine. He also wasn't that smart.

When it showed up in one of the gay mags he was fine and had a sense of humor about it... at first. This was in the late 90s, and some people found his pics floating around some newsgroups. They would print them out and leave them on his apartment door. On his car. At that point, he was on edge enough to deck someone who even brought them up.

20 years pass. The pics are ancient history. Using his degree in sports medicine he is up for his dream job (think pro sports). They find the pics and tell him they won't hire him. Don't want that image associated with their brand and since they were able to find it so easily, so would others.

He OD's on pills and alcohol that night. His wife told some of his peer group the story, who then told me.

Thing is, I've been looking for those pics for years. I only saw them in actual print form once from a friend who had the magazine. As far as anyone knew, they weren't online. In the magazine they did use his real name, but only his first name. The only thing I can think of is that he reported the income from the photos on his taxes and the company was able to find them as part of a super thorough background check.

So for those of you who want a pic, don't have one. I can tell you he was built a bit like that Collin Simpson dude.

R6, Scott Brown? Now *there's* a Republican I can get behind!

Do people use their real names when posing nude?? Never do that. You can always just deny it’s you

I once posed nude for Richard Avedon and let me tell you it was the most humiliating experience of my life. Not only didn’t he look up from his table, they threw me out of the restaurant

I've known a couple of MDs who have posed or done porn. But they're in pathology and radiology, specialties that don't require a lot of direct patient contact so it just doesn't come up.

R31 It worked out better for Eve and Marcel

Those are some serious tits. I’m impressed even as a gay man.

Op here. My High School Latin teacher was hot as fuck. He’d wear these tight pants and dress shirt that clung to his muscles. I Would conjure visions of what his naked self must have looked like. . He left teaching right after my Senior year. Now I can masturbate to his naked pictures and gay videos. He’s the porn dude Michael Roman.

No it do not fuck up my life. It open many doors. And look at me now-- a happy successful architect with many wig!

brava, r36, brava!

R35 Ohhhhhhhh Mr. Polish!

I'm trying to think of circumstances where posing naked for a magazine would fuck up one's life. Televangelist? Candidate for high public office in a conservative district revealed late in a campaign? Child carer and elementary and secondary school teaching and key administrative positions? A consular posting to a country with hostile laws regarding that sort of thing?

It wouldn't seem that there are many cases where it might be an issue today, particularly if all evidence points to it having been in the past and not ongoing, and no dogs or children or a few specific sorts of sex acts were involved.

I know Datalounge is has its share of individuals worried that a Grindr photo of their upper thigh will ruin them. Ruin them. But it just doesn't seem to be the worry that it was when it was an unusual thing and when nudity and sex were hidden away behind layered curtains hung by The Moral Instruction League.

Yes, OP. Now I can never walk down the street without feeling am being sized up as a piece of meat.

My primary doctor posed in Playgirl in the early 80s. He looked so familiar when he introduced himself, just a few years after his layout in the magazine. I guessed he was in one of my small collection of Playgirls, and found him as the centerfold of one of them. He changed his name for the photoshoot, but he was instantly recognizable to me. He had a mushroom dick and a big bush, and I look down at his crotch when he's checking me over and see them there. It makes me tingle a little. I haven't told him I saw the pictures and I won't reveal who he is, but I always look at the layout when I come back home from a doctor's appointment with him. Yes, I get off. If he only knew.

When I was in grade school, it came out that our art teacher (who had massive tits, by the way) had posed for Playboy a few years earlier. It was a huge scandal in the school, and she ended up being fired. I remember the principle coming to our class one day to tell us that Miss Donnelly had to leave because, yes, she did pose for Playboy.

Well, of course, every hetero boy in the school made it his mission to find that issue. I never did see it. Even in the 5th grade, I wasn't all that interested. Now if our male gym teacher had posed for Playgirl, I'd have been all over that!

No for a VHS porno in the late 80s talk about paranoia

it didn't stop my asshole from getting fucked by a lot of guys

Playgirl published a spread on the man who was a lifeguard and my swimming teacher at the summer swim club we joined a year earlier. He had a wonderfully hairy chest and big muscles, and a few of his pubes always swayed in the water above the waistline of his swimsuit.

The next summer, the housewives brought the new issue to the club. I tried like hell to catch a glimpse when they were showing it to each other. I never succeeded. I don't remember his name or the year in the mid-70s. I've looked at some old centerfolds posted online and I can't place him.

The wife of the pool manager had a not-so-great reputation because she wore small bikinis when she was in her 40s. There were rumors among the housewives that this woman sampled the male lifeguards in their spare time.

I wonder if he was able to get any recommendation letters from club members after he graduated from college.

This thread is worthless without pics and names, except for R35. (Thanks R35 for the reference.)

The other posts are so lame! Just tell us the goddamned names or post the pics. If you won’t do it, then get the hell out of this thread!

To answer your question, OP: yes.

So you wouldn’t mind if a posting of a name or picture is just the thing that fucks someone’s life up?

R42 “I remember the principle coming to our class”

R49 Sorry, honey. "Principal." Feel better now?

R46 here. I apologize; I was over the top. I understand that posting pics and names can have dire consequences for others. Please accept my apology.

Accepted, R51.

In the early 80s, I was hired as a Maintenance Manager for a mainstream organization in New York - think big highrise with major conservative corporations. I inherited a cleaning crew that was outsourced. They did a great job and were very affordable, especially since we didn't need to pay benefits. On my first day there, I immediately recognized one of the cleaners as a guy who had been featured in several popular porn magazines. And yes, I had jerked off to his picture many times.

He was a good worker and a sweet guy, and I came to realize that he needed this job because of the flexibility it gave him to pursue his "modeling" career. I knew that if anyone in my organization had known about his other life, I would have to ask the contracting company to replace him. So I never said anything to anyone, and never acknowledged to him that I knew who he was. But he knew that I was gay, so I'm sure he guessed that I was cool with him. And I also observed some men who worked in the building give him the knowing eye. As far as I know, no one of that group complained either. He worked there for the 15 years that I was employed.

Lance Travis who won a bronze medal in senior pairs at US Nationals posed NUDE for a gay pron magazine - it was all solo work

Now he is a Professional figure skating coach and children's book author/illustrator in North Carolina