ABSTRACT
The viewer is manipulated by the artist, with the complicity of the model, to participate in the studio dance and confront his or her own erotic feelings. True, Eros is also generally kept at bay in private studios where models are engaged by one or more artists. As for Sarn Clayberger, he described his models in terms that spread them across the erotic landscape, from tentative to engaged. Several respondents, including photographer Judy Dater, who will be introduced later, and Sam's Kelly, asserted that they would feel uncomfortable posing for a man to whom they were physically attracted. Despite the efforts of prominent feminist artists of the period, among them Joan Semmel, Judy Chicago, and Sylvia Sleigh, the attempt at "turning the tables" on male-dominated art history by eroticizing the male nude, the results are seldom effective from the standpoint of sexually arousing imagery.
