I'm probably the most offensive person I know

There isn't much that makes me uncomfortable.

In terms of people, I usually tell anyone who gets to know my well enough that the only way to offend me is to try to do it - on purpose. You could (theoretically) grab my boob and as long as I know you don't mean any harm I won't put my foot through your crotch. I'll tell you - nicely - that I don't like it and then if you do again I'll punch you in the throat. But the first time is a freebie. (I invite you to test this - not because I want my boobs grabbed but because one day I'd really like to punch someone in the throat.)

Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) has often talked about "mythbuster moments" where he stops (generally after they've strapped large quantities of explosives to a baliistics gel cow but before it's been ignited) and thinks "...we're in an abandoned quarry about to blow up a ballistics gel cow..." The abnormality that blowing up a ballistics gel cow is - to them - not abnormal suddenly becomes apparent and undeniable. For a split second, Adam Savage sees what the rest of the Discovery Channel whores like myself see during every episode: "This is weird."

This is exactly how I feel doing a nude shoot, especially when I'm carrying on a conversation with the photographer as if we'd run into each other in the lawn care aisle of Walmart. Inevitably I step outside myself and think "...I'm sitting here, totally naked, in front of a camera and I just asked about whether his dog's neutering went alright" followed by, "...This is weird." For a shoot that I did a month ago, I brought along another photog friend who I'd worked with as my escort and the artist brought his fiance. My friend and his fiance chatted obliviously twenty-five feet away while he asked me to arch my back more.

The weirdest part about it is that it's not weird. I'm very careful about who I work with and won't even consider it if the comfort level isn't 110% going into it. But I'm not the norm and most people find nudity intensely discomfitting, whether it's their own or someone else's. So when I find myself in a situation where it's not the subject that's danced around and, in fact, is hardly even noticeable, I have to take a step back and remember that it's a very different environment in front of the camera than it is in "real life". Not everyone sees it as I do; not everyone should.