I was recently delighted to be a guest blogger on one of my favourite blogs 4togsblog

They gave me a lovely introduction which I have to mention, if you want to read it you can click here and after that they happily published the following article -

Boudoir is about you, yes girls that’s you, it’s about being sexy, it’s about being fierce, it’s about celebrating the woman that you are!

So there are male photographers who do boudoir and I’ve seen some great stuff shot by men but can a man really get into the mind of a woman, you know the old addage that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, well I think that’s a pretty true statement.  As a woman I know when I photograph my clients how they want to look and feel and I also know that we women have hang-ups that men don’t even notice, a woman might be a size 8 and still hate her tummy and as I woman I thoroughly understand that, and I think women are more open with women than they are with men.  Hey I have pretty much an all male group of friends but if I’m ever going to have a boudoir shoot I wouldn’t in a month of Sundays hire a guy.  I trust that women know how women want to look and it’s usually a whole lot different than the way men think they want to look

Essentially boudoir isn’t salacious, it’s not even in the slightest bit slutty and it’s only suggestive if the woman wants it to be.

I also have lumps and bumps (and more than most I hasten to add) and it’s posing by a woman for other women that ensures that my ladies end up with photographs that they love so much they want to share them with their partners and in some cases the entire world.

I truly believe that the male psyche cannot ever understand female body hang-ups because the average man doesn’t ever have them, when was the last time you spoke to a man who was worried about the way his tummy or boobs looked, hell men don’t even have boobs so how can they appreciate how we women feel about them, and believe me when I say that men have a different way of thinking about them than we females.

I would love to hear your opinions (male and female) can men ever compete in the world of boudoir and do they understand the needs and wants of women seeking boudoir photography?