Stranger approached me today, weird request...

I was just walking to the bus station, with my headphones in when a guy stopped me, complimented me a bit etc and asked if he could take a picture of me for his portfolio. I said alright (assumed he just wanted a regular picture of me), he said that he's a student and showed me the types of pictures he was thinking of on his phone. He proceeded to show me pictures of some other topless girls on his phone.

He then went on to say that he could imagine me undressed and it'd make a good picture and something about how he doesn't approach all girls but I looked 'characterful' or something so he wanted one of me. I'm not sure what to make of this. I feel flattered that he wanted to take a picture of me, but also insulted that he thought I'd just let him take me to some room where he could take a naked picture of me. I was fully dressed by the way, you could only see my wrists and head/neck.

What do you make of this?

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I haven't told anyone because it's really embarrassing, but it just seems weird that he thought I'd agree to something like that for some portfolio, like I don't even know him and he thought I'd agree to take my clothes off so he could take some picture? He was showing me pictures of 2 other girls that had agreed as well (both topless), not sure when taken.

Thankfully it seems like you rejected because that's usually where it gets pretty ugly/bad, they draw you in then they have you, never trust a random stranger with something like this


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How naive are you?

I can take any 2 random pictures of the internet featuring 2 topless girls and claim that I took the pictures of the girls after they agreed.

That's actually hilarious. Did he think that would work? Or maybe it does actually work? I'm totally stumped by this scenario.

If he wasn't socially creepy I would respectfully decline. (If he was creepy, I'd be rude, so yes, I'm judgmental.) I would also probably laugh in his face.

Don't worry about it, unless the girls were underage, in which case you should report it.

Yeah I am pretty naive to be honest, last year I was walking back from college and some guy called me asking for directions, so I actually just conversed with him for 5 minutes giving him directions then he kept pestering me for my number and wouldn't let me walk home until I said my dad was waiting in the car. I really need to be more streetwise. :/

Best way to avoid this stuff: ignore them and don't look at them, if anything just say: "I don't know".

Oh yeah I declined his request, I just said 'sorry I can't' to which he responded 'oh but why? You're smiling so you probably do want to a bit right?' and things like 'come on it'll be an interesting experience' but I was pretty persistent and continued refusing, then left to find I'd missed my bus. :P

Yeah I mean, last time a similar thing happened, incident mentioned above ^, and people told me to just keep my headphones in from now on so nobody will disturb me as they know I can't hear but unfortunately, I'll just have to ignore people now which is sad because someone might genuinely need help finding a location or whatever.

Yeah I wasn't sure from the first post whether you'd be likely to run into him again. I could imagine someone trying this for a joke, but someone who keeps pushing like that is definitely creepy and best avoided. Are you >16? If not, you should probably tell someone (though I realise it would feel really awkward). However, if you didn't feel threatened by the experience you can probably just laugh it off.