Since I started doing Anonymous Sinful Sunday back in June, I’ve been lucky enough to host some fantastic images and words. The two October submissions not only meet the standard established over the last few months – they arguably raise it. Both tell a compelling story, and both manage to be extremely hot, while revealing comparatively little. They made me think: about why we send sexy photos, and whether we do it for the recipient or for ourselves; and about how hard it is to truly expose ourselves sometimes, and let others not only see us, but represent us as they see us.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, and if you want to be featured here on the last Sunday of next month, please get in touch.
[EDIT: One of the people who submitted a photo for this post has asked for it to be removed.]
My Portrait
He got in touch because he was going to be in London for a week and he and the friend he was visiting wanted to watch each other with someone else. He thought it might interest me. It did. But what interested me more was that he was an artist. “Will you draw me?”, I asked. “I’ll draw you like one my French women”, he joked, paraphrasing Titanic.
I revealed my motivations. I told him about Sinful Sunday, the amazing sense of community and encouragement I see amongst the regulars each week, and how once a month my friend donates his page to anyone who wants to post anonymously. I told him how much I’d already got out of contributing photos each month and that he had now got me thinking that if I was going to take advantage of my friend’s generosity with his blog to face my own body issues then I may as well take the bull by the horns and really expose myself: surely time spent sitting for a portrait, being studied, would be much more of a test?
Despite everything else that happened in that hotel room that afternoon this definitely felt the most intimate. There’s a vulnerability in sitting there, still, hearing the sweep of pencil on paper but not knowing how your body is being interpreted. But I loved it and I am very glad I did it. And I definitely wouldn’t have had the confidence to do it a few months ago, so thank you to Molly, Exhibit A and everyone who has written lovely comments about my other contributions. And thanks, of course, to the artist for my drawing – I’m going to have it framed.
19 replies on “Sinful Sunday: Anonymous (October)”
Both are excellent and very beautiful!
The thought of someone looking at me in so much detail so they could sketch me would make me feel very vulnerable too.
The words for the first one definitely hit home though, that’s exactly how I feel when sending a nude picture. The response is sometimes unnecessary, it’s the act of doing it that is the thrill.
I like the decadent touch the broken screen ads to the very sexy picture. And as for the drawing – well. I wrote a story about being drawn, in Alison Tyler’s Big Book of Bondage – it’s lovely to see the same thing played out in real life.
There’s no way I could sit for a sketch to be done of me, I’d feel far too exposed and vulnerable, neither are feelings I enjoy in that context, so I have nothing but admiration for the lady who contributed that image.
The bath shot is cheeky, and I love that, but even more I love the words which accompany it….I always find taking photos makes me horny, the click of the shutter and the anticipation of what th eimage will look like.
Thanks to both ladies who send you their contributions to Sinful Sunday 🙂
I love both the entries. There’s a vulnerability in both of them, and even more so in the second one. The drawing is gorgeous and I love the fact that she will have it framed. This is a way of embracing herself which is wonderful. The words in the first entry are sexy and what I like is that the photo shows the device too.
Two great entries!
Rebel xox
I love that you do this. It is such a cool idea and so in-keeping with what Sinful Sunday is about.
For me the first image is striking for the cracks on the screen which give the shot an almost jigsaw like feel and these are just some of the pieces that make up this person.
The drawing is beautiful and has a very open and vulnerable feel to it and in many ways seems even more exposed than a photograph would have done
Mollyxxx
These are both brilliant, made more so by the accompanying words.
The first image is very sexy and the fact that it is a shot of a phone ads an element of illicit voyeurism for the viewer. I agree that sending photos like that are often more about how we, the sender, feel that the recipient.
The second image is wonderfully vulnerable. Being drawn is not easy, there is something about the silence and the charcoal scratching on the paper that fills your mind with all sorts of intimate things. This is a beautiful, open capture. I’m so glad she is in love with the end result.
Both wonderful images. Sensual, tender, and just a delight to view.
Katie xx
I don’t know if I could sit for it, but it’s beautiful.
Wow . . . such two beautiful images . . . and beautiful words as well. Lovely idea . . . lovely post!!!
Xxx – K
Both are wonderful images. The first seen through the phone screen feels very voyeuristic. The second being a sketch feels so vulnerable.
These are both so beautiful, all the more so for the honesty in the accompanying text. Just lovely and very affecting.
First, I LOVE that you do this.
Second, it is not just the images that touch me so in these, but their words. I, too, often contemplate why it is that we do the things we do, including exposing ourselves this way. Beautifully, beautifully told (and shown) by both images and words here.
My wife has never let me take photos of her nude, until recently. I don’t think she’s really in favor of it but she loves that I love her body enough that I want to take photos. She tells me that it makes her feel beautiful.
We’ve been married 30 years. I wish I had some photos from early in our marriage to show how her body has changed over 30 years, five kids, significant weight gain and loss, etc.
For me, her body is more beautiful now than when we were married. That’s not to say it’s more “hot”. She was SMOKIN hot back then. Now, she’s beautiful in ways that hot can’t even come close to.
She has a bulgy tummy when once it was flat. Her breasts sag when once they were perky. Her nipples lie flat when once they poked strait out. Her butt is droopy when once it was tight and fit. Her vagina is large when once it was tight.
My 24 year old self would look at her now and shudder. My 54 year old self looks at her and admires her beauty and can’t wait to be naked with her.
Her belly bulges because she brought five very large children into this world. She allowed her hot body to be destroyed from the inside by our wonderful children. Her breasts and nipples are saggy because she breast fed each of them, and they sucked all the perkiness out of them. She slaved and sacrificed for their needs and wants. And now, we have four wonderful grandkids to spoil rotten.
I wrote about her body, and why women everywhere, no matter their size or shape, should see the beauty of their bodies through the eyes of their husbands. You can read about it here:
http://marriedheat.com/wives-take-big-girl-panties/
My wife’s body continues to make me hard and I desire to make love to her everyday. Thanks for sharing these pictures.
These are, in a word, beautiful. I’m a huge fan of charcoal sketches and the softness and sensuality of this one really is fabulous. The phone image? Stunning and inspired. There is such a naturalness to it but more than that it is just incredibly sexy. Positioning in a ‘message’ context just makes it even hotter. Jane xxx
Very nice work on the sketch- you were very brave!
I like the thought process behind the first one, especially the reveleation about hitting ‘send.’
The charcoal sketch is brilliant! Not sure I could ever sit still for one 🙂
~Kazi xxx
As someone who enjoys receiving such photos, I found the first shot very exciting. It made me think of the trust that the sender must feel in order to share something so intimate. It’s not something I take lightly. As for the sketch, it’s absolutely beautiful. I wish I had half his talent.
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