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As an artist myself I can tell you there is nothing sexual about figure drawing classes. After about 5 minutes the model's muscles are aching which makes him/her start to move, the artist are getting frustrated because the model is moving or because they can't quite get their drawing right. The artist aren't there to gawk but to learn.
As for perverts in the class, every art program I've looked into has figure drawing as an advanced level course. Which means that there is a list of prerequisites to get through before figure drawing. That process weeds out all but the most serious artists, any perverts who want to take the class to see naked people would likely give up and just go online to get their kicks.
Also artist will spend barely anytime at all looking at the model's sexual organs because they are very easy to draw, no real complexity. Most of the time is spent staring intently at their hands, feet, face etc. because those are the body parts that are most difficult to draw.
In the end I think you need to be an artist, or know an artist very well, to understand it. Sometimes in classes our model will be a no-show. It usually only takes about 5 minutes until one of us is naked and posing. I would have no problem with my wife posing for an art class, because I understand the whole process quite well.
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