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Stu is an exhibi onist. He loves taking it all off for an apprecia ve audience--male, fe- male, gay, straight, mixed group-- for anyone over 18. If you'd like him to pose for you and your friends (virtu- ally or in person), for drawings or for screenshots or just to watch, ask him--there's NO FEE for readers of this column. He also does read- ings from his book and, you guessed it, he does that naked and with no fee as well. His book, 'Lights On— Clothes Off: Confessions of an Unabashed Exhibi onist,' fully exposes his exci ng exhibi onist life. His book: lightsonclothesoff.com His email: stuauthor@gmail.com In this month's column, I'll be sugges ng a way you can raise money for your favorite charity. With some nudity thrown in of course. One of my friends, who also posed for art classes around San Diego, was a emp ng to raise money to support his ride in an upcoming AIDS Lifecycle event. He and a couple of ar st and model friends and I came up with this idea and we raised more than $2,000 in one evening. And it was loads of fun! We contacted several guys who regularly posed for art classes and photo shoots around town and told them that we were going to sponsor an open house where we would invite non-ar sts to come and ob serve all of us posing, nude of course. We also told them that we would allow everyone to take pho- tos during the event. Within a week of asking mod- els we knew we commi ed four others—three gay guys and one straight guy. That was easy! Next, we contacted several facili es that hosted drawing groups and had a large enough space that would accommodate our needs. (We hoped that we'd have about twenty-five people a end.) We were very open about our idea to ensure that it would work for them. We had three indicate that they would be happy to assist. One had a small fee and a small space. One had adequate space but poor ligh ng. The third place, our local LGBTQ the- atre, offered us a large rehearsal space with good ligh ng and no fee. That was it for us! A er selec ng a date for the event the six of us asked friends, photographers, and ar sts (and boy- friends, partners, husbands, etc.) for their support. We quickly had people commit to bringing wine (not talking about a couple of bo les—one man donat- ed two cases of wine), trays of finger foods, needed paper goods, etc. A couple of guys offered to collect dona ons at the door and assist with sea ng, serv- ing, and cleanup. One person arranged for us to be able to take dona ons at the door via credit cards. And my husband volunteered to be the bartender for the evening. We all met to plan the details of the evening. We decided to set up the wine and nibbles just outside the door to the space. A er surveying the facility we made plans to have sea ng 'in the round' to give our upcoming audience perfect views of each of us as we did our posing rou nes. We also decided that we would all stay fully dressed while gree ng peo- ple before the 'show.' Then a er each of us would do our first posing we would have an intermission and we would wear briefs only as we mingled. Fol- lowing intermission each of us would repeat our posing before ending the evening with all of us fully naked while taking our bows. Next came the adver sing. We have two gay publi- ca ons in town and both agreed to include 6 | Diversity Rules Magazine | May 2023 Sans Clothing Stu's Stories of Exhibitionism By Stu Schwartz

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