The works are good, but there is nowhere to show them. The repression of this corpus is one of the curious scandals of aesthetic history. It's not as if drawing from the nude is a secret passion. Usually, a professional model offers his or her services at a reasonable cost, which a number of artists share. During these sessions, there's no room for anything but the highest and most exacting professional concentration.
Any sexual pleasure is attenuated by the onus of responsibility to the form.
It's a tough discipline in which artists used to be well schooled from early days, and in some art academies still are. But few artists can find gainful employment for their continuing abilities. Conventional taste is unsympathetic to the nude. It's seen as something artists have to outgrow in order to establish themselves as individuals with a signature style and subject matter. A fine exhibition at Heide shows how old this predicament is.