Jump to navigation. Finland has gone where no other country has ever dared to go so far. And if you are in Finland, you are most likely going to lick it the next time you post a letter! Itella, the Finnish postal service, will soon be releasing commemorative stamps featuring the art of Tom of Finland or Touko Laaksonen The stamps have been based on Laaksonen's explocit art which usually depicted gay sex and relationships. The stamps from Itella that will go on sale from September 8, , feature the "confident and proud homoeroticism" of Laaksonen.
Finland to release NSFW gay art stamps in September
Bulging biceps, abs of steel, leather biker gear. The trailer for the Tom of Finland biopic is likely exactly as its namesake would want it. After all, that is exactly what made the Fin a pioneering and ground-breaking homo-erotic fetish artist in the late 20th century. Although he might have made things a little more explicit if he was still alive.
Touko Valio Laaksonen 8 May — 7 November , best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland , was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic fetish art , and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Laaksonen was born and raised by a middle-class family in Kaarina , a town in southwestern Finland , near the city of Turku. The family lived in the school building's attached living quarters.