Tom of Finland
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Touko Valio Laaksonen, known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized erotic art featuring suggestively hypermasculine male characters. He worked primarily in pencil, pr
Laaksonen c. 1959
Tom of Finland's room at TOM House in Los Angeles (2002), photographed by Henning von Berg.
A Tom of Finland drawing on the cover of a 1963 issue of Physique Pictorial.
Erotic art
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Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke arousal. It usually depicts human nudity or sexual activity, and has included works in various visual m
Tom of Finland
…Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized erotic art featuring suggestively hypermasculine male characters. He worked primarily in pencil, producing drawings on paper and for publication in a variety of…
The Venus of Willendorf, a figurine with exaggerated sexual characteristics. Estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago
Clay plaque. India. 1st century BCE.
Interior of an Attic cup depicting a "courting couple at the symposium" or a "Symposium scene with youths", by a painter from Colmar, from around 500 - 450 BCE, displayed in the Louvre Museum
Shunga print, by Hokusai, from Japan around 1815–1823