The clearly sexually connoted depictions - often the sexual act is performed with the women before, during or after they are killed. In most of his stories the women are then eaten (sexually motivated cannibalism, also called Gynophagia). They are impaled and roasted, decapitated, hanged or shot. The pictures mostly focus on one or more women who are either killed at their own request or by violence. Dolcett contacted Karyn, gave her previously unpublished material and also drew two new stories and several new individual pictures with her fantasies. Starting in 1997, Dolcett's stories were collected by a woman named Karyn and displayed on a website. He was part of a network of private individuals in the USA in the 1980s, who met each other to exchange and sometimes re-enact extreme sexual fantasies.ĭolcett became known with his works on the Internet in the 1990s, when some people scanned his pictures and published them in Usenet groups. Tom of Finland’s images re-envisioned what was shameful and even illegal with a proud, confident, and overwhelmingly positive celebration of sexuality and identity.In this section you will find all the original cannibal / gynophagia comics by Dolcett (or, at least, all that I know of). Dolcett is the pseudonym of a Canadian comic artist. Institutional exhibitions of his work have elevated what was once considered pornographic to the status of the artwork and contextualized Laaksonen’s oeuvre within the struggles of the gay liberation movement, the AIDS crisis and, queer body politics. Tom of Finland’s illustrations have been influential to sado-masochism and fetish culture as well as inspiring many iconic gay artists, like Robert Mapplethorpe, Bob Mizer, George Quaintance, and Etienne. A dedicated publication also collates the comics of Kake, Tom’s favorite and reoccurring character.
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A series of TASCHEN books also focuses on different fantasy types that appear in Tom’s work the military man, sailors, cops and criminals, and blue collar, regular guys. TASCHEN’s XXL monograph The Art of Pleasure, chronicles Laaksonen’s homoerotica in all its explicit and suggestive playfulness. For many, Tom of Finland images were the first depictions of homosexual desire and sex they had ever seen. Tom’s men were men, and there was only one thing on their minds. His images of butch and muscular men engaged in intimacy, often dressed in working class uniforms, subverted the stereotype of the effete and intellectual gay man. By the late 60s Tom’s dirty drawings became the standard for gay art and Tom’s Men a template for a new gay masculinity. After honing his artistic talents with study in Helsinki, he found commercial success in the Finnish advertising industry but secretly he continued creating his increasingly erotic drawings of hyper-masculine men.Īs a way to avoid homophobic censorship law, he submitted drawings to the American magazine Physique Pictorial and soon the Tom of Finland legend was born. Touko Laaksonen, the boy who would become Tom of Finland (1920-1991), began drawing cartoons of the rough and manly men of his native Finland at an early age. Nobody seems to be in trouble, in fact everyone appears to be enjoying themselves. Two male police officers, biceps bursting out of their uniforms, have pulled over a handsome young biker clad in a revealing leather outfit.