I can read, know nothing of any 'agenda' and dare say my grasp of the English language is every bit as accomplished as yours. These are your own words:
So you need to understand what's so offensive about that.
1. The victim is NOT always, as you put it, 'free to walk' - which is why coercion is now classified as a duress crime. Whether or not the victim was free to walk, had other ways out or could have adopted other evasive actions has ZERO bearing on the perpetrator's culpability. Nada.
2. If you can grasp that, you'll perhaps begin to understand 'the agenda' of those that find your position so unpalatable.
1. Oh yes, that's not a difficult idea to grasp at all; what's difficult to grasp is that some, yourself clearly included, fail to understand that the extreme situation you cite, where the person is not able to vanish of her own will, is not flirtation or trying it on: it is rape. I don't think we are speaking about obvious crimes like that at all; at least, I'm not, even if you are willing to lump nearly all possible male/female relationships into that bag. And if, indeed, they really are all legally lumped together in that way, then yet again, the law is proved an ass.
As I have never seen any of your work, I have no idea if you are a pro photographer or not, or even have any experience with model work. If you have, you will already know that one part of the technique of getting the best out of a female model is via flattery, often some verbal flirtation and the doing of whatever it takes to make her think she is wonderful and the best thing to have graced your camera, ever. The trick, simply, is to give her the confidence to do her thing as well as she can, and to take chances and try new things. You need to create an electricity, and an undertone of mild, unspoken and unrealised sexuality is often what it talkes to motivate. I'm told there are photographers who work the opposite way: they shout and curse at the poor girl. I never met such a snapper (no pun etc,) but would not be surprised if they exist.
I have very little experience of working with male models. Whenever I had to, I found it tedious and boring, and had no idea how to get anything out of them. Most appeared to be very dull individuals, and I probably struck them in the same way. Could be that some photographers found the same problem and thought to resolve it in some other way (one they might have imagined was something the model might think was a
nice way...)
2. I thought you'd just said there was no agenda? Alice? You hear me? Come back through at once; it's time for tea!
Now I really
have closed the door on this thread. Locked it, no; anyone who sees any remote chance of finding a compromise, or just has nothing better to do can carry on, and with my very best wishes.