It’s not difficult to draw a through-line from Tom’s art, regardless of how silly it may seem to some, through to the design and aesthetics of the modern day superhero. While many publications made being a gay man a sin, or something to exist only in the shadows or under the counter of a magazine store, Tom and his characters were willing to be out, horny, and happy enough for everybody. Instead of the usual narrative found in many gay comics or pulp novels at the time in which gay men felt shame and enjoyed their pleasure as a secret taboo, Tom’s characters clearly, visibly relished in it - the hunger for pleasure, stripped inhibition, and being seen at their most sexual machismo. In fact, it’s often noted that while consent (or, probably more accurately, consensual non-consent) is a tricky subject among some of Tom’s works, each character is one that looks happy, bright, and like he’s enjoying himself. While his porn and pictures were often fun ways to get a glimpse of cock in your spare time, the pictures are not without their sensuality. Perhaps one of the most notable parts of Tom's artwork that differentiate him from what we’re used to, however, is the lusciousness and softness afforded to such strong men.
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By the 1960s, as American pornography laws became more lax, Tom’s art became increasingly explicit, full of even wilder fantasy, and more than a little exaggerated in the ways of proportioning. Even sold as “physique magazines” under the counter and on the down-low, the aesthetics of Laaksonen - now having officially adopted “Tom”, as a pen name as well as a moniker among friends - matched perfectly with the desires of gay men around the world. Soon enough, however, Laaksonen began to submit his art to beefcake magazines - ashcan-style magazines packed with images of American bodybuilders, muscled hunks in thongs, and an “appreciation” for everything…er… hardened about the male form. With Finland having taken the side of Nazi Germany during the Second World War (despite never officially becoming an axis power), the exposure to uniformed figures of power and hyper-sexuality proved to be a simply erotic environment to which a young Laaksonen was exposed.īy his 30s, Laaksonen had been working as a graphic artist in advertising, using his spare time to draw his own sexual desires just for fun, relying on imagery of authority figures, rural farmhands and lumberjacks from his childhood, and his own former military experience to fuel his pen. In a way, for all of its faults concerning the legality of homosexuality back in the day, Finland inspired some of the gayest art the world had ever seen, including Laaksonen - who had served as a second lieutenant and anti-aircraft officer - fetishizing Nazi uniforms, a symbol of absolute hate whose philosophy and racism he deplored, found the design sexy and authoritative. With tensions growing to new heights, the militarization of Finland was something of an inevitability, and every able-bodied young man was required by law to join and serve.
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The whole Nazi philosophy, the racism and all that, is hateful to me, but of course I drew them anyway-they had the sexiest uniforms!" – Touko Valio Laaksonen (Tom of Finland), quote source: most famously as Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen was born in Finland in the 1920s - a period where the country was not only going through its own growing pains, but also learning to cope with Soviet Russia as its rather touchy new neighbors. I am thinking only about the picture itself. "In my drawings I have no political statements to make, no ideology. Initially inspired by male laborers, his time in the army moved his artistic interest toward uniformed men. He destroyed all of them when the Finnish army conscripted him in 1940. At the age of 19, he started his studies in advertising while drawing erotic images in his spare time. Touko Valio Laaksonen was born in 1920 in Kaarina, near Turku in Finland. His art revolves around strong gay masculinity, with men often clad in leather or uniform having joyful sex. He was friends with Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol visited his first exhibition in a boot shop in 1978.
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Meet Tom of Finland, the artist that inspired the looks of Freddie Mercury and the Village People.