I will not migrate to Wordpress

Photographer: Joe Giacomet for Professional Photographer. Model: me

Last week I received an update through BlogLovin re a blogger who was moving to Wordpress because Blogger would be making private all blogs with 'graphic nudity' and or 'sexually explicit' images. I was quite vexed by it, that particular blog is not a porn blog at all, but it did have some nudity. I thought I had to do the same but this week Blogger has published an update, stating that things will stay as they are and all blogs containing nudity will carry on as before but there is the compulsion of turning on the 'adult  content' setting. I have had that in place ever since I began this blog.
So all is well that ends well and I will not be migrating to Wordpress. Not yet.
But I would like to take the opportunity to discuss this issue of nudity as it comes up at regular intervals.
This blog contains no porn nor sexually explicit images. However, this blog contains images relating to my art nude photographic work, which can be seen in the posts of the first three years of this blog's life. As it happens, I no longer do art nude, not as much as I used to. I got tired of people wanting to do the same images again, sometimes even proposing concepts for photoshoots which I have already explored and which I see no point in repeating. I also got tired of the fact so much art nude photography is paid so little and models are often expected to give their time for free, as if it were an honour for them to be asked to model mostly by and for amateur photographers who wont even process the images!
However, this does not mean that I have disowned my previous work nor do I agree with the nudity=porn equation.

Fashion illustration drawing. Model: me

If the context of the photo requires it I have no problems with nudity. I am doing this week a fashion shoot that will involve one topless image and  am happy to do it, it makes sense to me in the flow of things as discussed by the photographer and please note that it is an agency job (!).
Model Society recently sent me an email to say they had included a photo of me taken by Pascal Renoux in 2009 in  their new video available on You Tube to promote the first issue of Model Society 's magazine.
I love David Bolt's work and his concept for Model Society and am happy to give him my support.
As for Pascal, when I first saw his work I was bowled over. The way he uses light, the way he composes the images...I had to go and find him in France and do a shoot with him and I am so glad it happened. I have to thank Neil Huxtable for introducing me to the beauty of Pascal Renoux's photography.
I am happy to continue to be here on Blogger but if I ever have to remove beautiful images such as the one by Renoux because some twat at Blogger thinks it is porn then sorry, goodbye Blogger, hello Wordpress.
I shall monitor the situation.