It is doubtless that a person would feel uncomfortable in a state of cloth-less situation; and he or she would feel some sort of defencelessness, too. But when a person, a man or a woman, is modelling for figurative painting, he or she is not merely a cloth-less body. Here the model is neither defenceless nor feeling any shame or guilt; the person is well-balanced and feels proud of being so beautifully depicted in a natural pose.
