Well, people at my job know about my website. My boss knows, many of my students know, some of my co-workers know.

It’s not a concern for me because I’ve made the conscious decision to represent myself this way. It’s not a secret—if it was, I wouldn’t use my real name, or show my face. Anyone can google my name and find my website, and my naked body. And I’m fine with that. I made this choice and I own it. People are always worried about how having their naked body online will affect their future in terms of relationships, employment, etc. And those can be very valid concerns, but not for me. If a person or an employer has issue with what I’ve done in my past, or what I do now (when I most certainly do not) then I don’t want them in my life. That’s just my choice.

It doesn’t affect my job because I’m not being sexual when I’m teaching. I’m not teaching naked. I’m not talking about my photography while I’m teaching. I’m not telling anyone to look at my website while I’m teaching. Because, funnily enough, it never comes up while I’m teaching grammar, or whatever I happen to be teaching at the time.

Also, here is an email from one of my students that was sent to a friend of mine, who then sent it to me. Maybe it can answer your question better:

Now on to the subject of Katie West. She is my teacher, my grammar teacher to be specific.  She is probably my favorite teacher at college so far and it has nothing to do with the fact that I am able to go home and stare and her beautiful pale and freckled body.  Almost every single one of her students know about her interest outside of school, and yes at first some of them are surprised. After a double take, however, most of them notice more than just tits. But I guess the real question is does a sex worker, pornographer, or nude model make a good teacher and should they be allowed to teach our kids…
The answer is yes I scream from the rooftops of my inner city neighborhoods and school play grounds—every where the answer is yes.  Not only is Katie deeply interested in the magical world of grammar but also hundreds of other deeply important aspects of life that someone who is too afraid to take their clothes off may be too afraid to be interested in.
Katie West teaches respect not only for a person’s body but for themselves. There are no stupid people in my class there are no ugly people either, only people who have an opportunity to love themselves. Katie has taught us that it’s alright for an adult woman to love herself even after the glory of the perfect body has passed. She has taught us that it is possible for a woman to be married without losing her sense of self. That she is allowed to have her own interests, thoughts and desires and that these ideas shouldn’t be secrets.
Katie loves books and music and cheesy crafts and tacky shirts and star trek and nipples and all things Asian. She loves art and pretty things and sad things and human things and is not afraid to say I what she is feeling inside her body at any given moment.
That is so much more than I learned from any of the teachers I had in high school.

Yeah, my students are kind of amazing.

So I think that if you want to do something, and it’s something you truly want, then you should do it. If it will make you happy, then do it. Give no fucks. Because I always feel like I regret the things I didn’t do more than I regret the things I actually do. Nothing is as private as it once was, but if someone is going to judge you for something that you wanted to do and you enjoyed, fuck them. I guess just be prepared for any consequences—just ask yourself if you’re willing to accept them. I would personally rather do whatever makes me happy than work for a place or have relationships with people who are going to judge me for doing the things I enjoy. Fuck that.