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I think it is a shame when healthy people have to live their lives and make their art according to the fears or fetishes of others.
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Tim,
My point to Kim is that in six years of marketing portraits, I've never had a mother request a portrait of a boy bare-chested. Additionally, from my same years in marketing, every client with whom I worked commissioned their children in clothes. An exception to this is a beach portrait, which a client might commission if they have that as part of their lifestyle. But often even the beach portrait is done with clothes as in these two very beautiful examples by Tim Chambers:
http://timothychambers.com/pages/carla-joshua2.htm
http://timothychambers.com/pages/bio2.htm (further down the page on the right).
There are two bare-chested boys on Kim's site. Considering that one only has a short period of time to capture the fancy of a potential client, my marketing advice was to use portraits that had a more proven track record of pulling commissions instead of those.
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