Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/14/14 at 6:21pm
Oh...only in Finland, but still!
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/15/14 at 12:33am
You can print your own stamps with your favorite photos.
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#2Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/15/14 at 1:40pm
I am totally going to get some.
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#3Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/16/14 at 2:51amI love the history of Tom of Finland and their place in the history of gay culture. I even have a Tom of Finland bedspread in my linen closet (courtesy of a friend who used to work in a sex toy factory -- no joke), but does anyone actually find Tom of Finland artwork, I dunno, arousing? It always struck me as comical and bit silly, but I could never tell if the original artist intended the work to be so camp.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/16/14 at 9:14amWhat do we think it says about Finland, gay marriage and Tom of Finland's homoeroticism that the first outlaws the second but celebrates the third with state-issued postage stamps?
#5Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/16/14 at 10:17am
Horse, I think they're seen as campy today. But back when I was young, there really was no easily accessible gay porn as it was illegal until the 70s. So your only option for arousal was hoping there would be a man with one of the girls in your father's Penthouse magazine. TofF was arousing because, in many cases, it was the ONLY access a young gay person had to anything remotely acknowledging what they were feeling. It was presented as beefcake back then, which was legal. It was homoerotic, but not overtly gay.
Different times...before that, everyone relied on the underwear section of the Sears catalog.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#6Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/16/14 at 10:41am
Horesetears, I find Tom of Finland's art extremely erotic and highly arousing. Artscallion, I think you might have limited exposure to Tom of Finalnd. Much of his art work is extremely graphic and, and given that it shows men having sex with each other, in all varieties (foreplay to intercourse to group sex to unconventional sex) definitely overtly gay.
Updated On: 4/16/14 at 10:41 AM
#7Tom of Finland Postage Stamps!
Posted: 4/16/14 at 10:49am
henrick, I've seen all the graphic stuff. But I was just talking about the not graphic stuff that was accessible here in the 50s/60s
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
Updated On: 4/16/14 at 10:49 AM
