I can't speak for anyone else Eliazbetth but the reason why i want to do it is because I spent a good 20 years truly believing I was hideous - though, as I said before, I'm kicking myself now for all the wasted opportunities that belief caused me to turn down. I don't just mean relationship wise, as when you have no self belief and no self confidence that can hold you back in all sorts of ways .... making friends, applying for jobs, taking risks, chatting to people. It can also lead you to making crappy decisions (especially relationship wise) because you think you don't deserve better.
I don't want to be a sex object, I just want to capture myself now I have finally begun to believe I am reasonably attractive, and though I hope I will still look "okay" as I get older, I figure now is as good a time as any. Maybe if I could afford it, I'd get pictures done every 5 years or so. I used to feel so unfeminine .... maybe I had that body dysmorphic thing ?? ..... in spite of having boobs & curves (which shows how silly it was) ..... and so now, I want to "celebrate" being a woman if that makes sense ? I certainly don't want to get all my bits out, for it to be explicit nor gratuitous ..... but neither do I want the only images I have of myself when I get older (which would mainly be memories in my mind) to be those of a frumpy frazzled mum. I am more than that - and quite possibly, a remaining lack of confidence is driving me to think about having this done, as if to prove that I am not the frump I often feel.
Also, during the time I hated how I looked, I used to avoid photos religiously. Consequently I have a very small record of how I've looked and how I've changed over the years. Kicking myself some more now, because casting my mind back to occasions when I realise - now - that I looked good, there's nothing, no record of that.
Again, personally, these pictures are for me and I don't know who, if anyone else, would ever get to see them. Even DP. Can you be a sex object to yourself I wonder ??