Thank you!! I love questions like this... This has a couple parts to it depending on what part of posing you're talking about but I'll just cover what I can think of.

Most obvious is probably anatomy, knowing how and where to break it helps a lot. Admittedly I still have a long way to go w anatomy, esp anatomical perspective, but you can do a lot with just enough. I really really like hitting the extremes, like limbs locked at their fullest extent vs totally limp. I also enjoy throwing in torso and limb twists wherever I can. I super recommend the Morpho series to have on hand when doing anything. The books are relatively cheap and convenient to carry around, but most of them are easy to find PDFS of online. Simplified forms and the base anatomy for artists are the two must haves, seconded by the fat & muscle bodied ones. The others are all nice-to-haves but I wouldnt buy them if you're tight on cash.

Another tip is to look at complicated stuff as just a bunch of simpler stuff combined. I usually start w something I want to highlight, the groin, an expression, the tension or force of an action, and build the rest around it. Sometimes I'll use negative space and try and frame something else like a face with it. Other times I just kinda start with a motion, in most cases I start with the spine, bc whatever that's doing is gonna inform the rest of the body. You can build tension by having, say, 2/4 limbs kinda ragdolling, following the line of action of the spine, and the other two fighting against that action, being the deliberate focus of the person's expended energy, if that makes sense? Thinking of parts of a pose as their own shapes helps a lot. Like a leg bent at the knee isn't a single long limb out of the body but a triangle kind of thing. You build complication by mixing those shapes and contrasting them to one another.

Other than that uhh if you watch any live porn reference your favorite stuff. 3D porn too. Things that are cinematic help a lot. I don't even like vanilla overwatch porn but a lot of that stuff has good posing and composition in it...

That's all I can think of right now! Some keywords for further googling: Line of Action, line of gravity, Contrapposto, negative space. There's probably more but baby needs a nap.

Ok sorry I meant to answer this earlier (I actually typed a whole thing and then accidentally refreshed the page and had to take a nap after).

Yeah it's real upsetting. It's almost worse given they almost exclusively target queer creators and not, idk, any execs on Call of Duty or marvel movie producers all getting them pentagon pouches. IDK as someone raised by an antivaxx new age conspiracy-brained chronic cult hopper, it's all too familiar to me. More cult shit. Targeting stupid shit so they feel a modicum of control.

But I honestly felt the same way, and was really paranoid about it until last year when I started my meds lol.

I do my best to keep everything separated, I'm largely exclusively logged into my NSFW stuff on a single device, use separate emails/discord and 2FA and VPN, long jumbled passwords, and generally use a lot of fake info whenever I publicly reference my life, try not to tweet abt where i am or are going, don't follow anyone I know IRL unless they're also doing all that. Stuff I've learned from sex workers.

Best advice I got is block em, ghost any friends you have that are like that, and post as anonymously as you can. Be free. I wanna say It's definitely worth it my mental health has improved tremendously since I started posting anything I wanted. TBF tho my life is pretty rock bottom, I'm too disabled to handle enough work to survive alone so I rely on others for a lot as is and don't have much more to lose to begin with since I'm estranged anyway. Kinda what pushed me to just fuck it and do it.

Anyway buproprion and weed baby Lesgo 🌿💊

Thank you for sharing! For the record, I don't mind that people do this. I understand a lot of folk are stuck, financially or physically or socially, in all kinds of situations that require assimilation. It can be difficult, and even dangerous, both mentally and physically, to leave before you're ready. There's also always the chance friends grow out of it eventually, or are also secretly going through the same pressures, so I don't necessarily blame people for sticking around. I encourage everyone to (safely) dip your toe into alternative communities, and find folks who can be supportive in the meantime. I too, am not sharing this aspect of my life with everyone I know, either because I know they wouldn't be too comfortable with it or be totally disinterested. So don't feel bad! I'd rather the poll makes you all feel less alone in this ♥️