The hilarious part about this whole comment thread is as a creative (photographer/videographer) who has mostly commercial clients, when it comes to all the fields that make real money (commercial development, product shoots, weddings, corporate events) you’re always told to “work for free”, “build a portfolio”, “provide free work first”, “you can’t charge for something you’re not experienced with” but oh low and behold boudoir MUST be different if you’re a male photographer just getting into it. You’re just magically supposed to have a portfolio and people are just supposed to randomly want to work with you.

If we’re being real that’s not how it works, this is becoming a field of photography that’s being dominated by women photographers playing off the “male photographers are creepy to want to see you in this way” thing. Even if that male is 10 times better and can create an even better overall experience to the client. They want to keep it that way so they fuel that fire consistently.

My advice to males who really want to get into boudoir, ask friends (women you’re dating) to help build your portfolio, if you’re going to really do it, actually be a professional, DON’T do free shoots, I charge a good amount for a 30 min shoot and it goes up with more time and more photos and looks. Have paper work (contracts, model releases, use of likeness), and use a studio and an assistant.

Also believe it or not there are women who throw themselves at you even in a professional setting it’s not always us (I’ve had it happen countless of times in everything that I do, from personal training to photography to having women working for me in my career field), most women think they can have whatever man they want and it’s cool when they do it but it’s a problem when we do so resist it and be professional.