The third section is in the form of a long and increasingly philosophical discussion between the two writers.  From Stanford, there are certainly plenty of anecdotes in this dialogue, but these are all put to work to serve the frank and useful discussions on such topics as why people should want either to disport themselves naked or to draw naked people (the male/female difference on this one is allowed to peep through the verbiage to a degree).  The old question of sex preference among male students in adult ed classes is illustrated by an anecdote all us elderly gents recognize.  It's the situation where everyone drifts away to draw the gorgeous girl on the other throne.  Stanford couldn't take it.  (My attitude is always "If they want to pay me for nothing, that's fine by me."  I believe that's called the professional approach).

The greatest achievement of this book, to my mind is that the two writers somehow manage to hint at many of the the pitfalls, drawbacks and dangers of the job, while at the same time probably not putting anyone off.  They do this by means of their obvious enthusiasm for life modelling and for life drawing (of which there are many fine examples by Evelyn herself throughout the book).  Stanford really believes in the job as a worthwhile and fulfilling thing to do.  He wants you to have a go at it and he genuinely hopes his book will give you the confidence to do so.  In that respect, it may well be a cut above some of the advice and discussion on this website of ours which, one or two people have said, has a tendency to scare people off.  Well, we have perhaps seen more evidence than have these two writers of how easy it is to attract unsuitable people into the job and for standards to slide as a result.

Not that they are short on standards.  In fact, you will find points in their go-it-alone rules that are stricter than the corresponding clauses in the RAM Guidelines, such as their insistence that models should be warned in advance when they are going to be required to pose with someone of the opposite sex.  But, of course, the RAM Guidelines have been gradually liberalized in the area of what you might call (and Stanford and Evelyn do indeed call) propriety, but increasingly toughened up in the areas of health & safety, working conditions and pay.  Although it certainly has useful things to say in the first two of these areas, the book tends to slide into the all-too-familiar pattern of model passivity over pay.  This very important topic is treated in the inevitable "this is what you get" fashion.

But still, it's very good thing that the book has been produced at all - nothing passive about that.  And as the authors say, it's probably unique in the UK as a book.  Of course, as a treatise on all of the areas it rightly covers, it is not unique, as just about everything discussed there is discussed in some form or another on this website.  But then, Stanford and Evelyn didn't know that.  In fact, it's quite distressing to read in the foreword:

"We have had to rely heavily on personal and anecdotal experiences in compiling the book, as we have found no other source material available.   For example, how does one make the first move to begin and to whom can one turn for help?"