En 1965, Tom of Finland comenzó a coquetear con la idea de crear un personaje fijo para sus tiras cómicas, el "hombre de Tom" por excelencia. Probó con un rubio llamado Vicky ?un nombre masculino común en Finlandia?,...
Las piernas femeninas son una rareza erótica: no genitales y de estructura casi idéntica a las extremidades masculinas, no hay razones obvias por las que deberían ser erotizadas. Pero a lo largo de buena parte de la historia y en much...
Pubic hair appeared on the American newsstand in 1970 compliments of Penthouse magazine. Within a year it was everywhere, and in 1975 Midwest redneck Larry Flynt parted the hair and made the pink beyond the centerpiece of Hustler.
Tom's taste for police officers and felons-and for sexual tension between the two-developed late in his career . "I've never been to prison," he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts in 1985, "but I hear it's a...
Frank Frazetta ha sido el rey indiscutible del arte fantástico durante 50 años, y su fama no ha dejado de crecer en los años transcurridos desde su muerte. Ahora que sus pinturas baten récords en subastas (Egyptian Queen se...
The Big Book of Breasts was an immediate best seller when it debuted in 2006. Its 396 pages introduced readers to the top naturally bountiful nude models of the 1950s, ?60s and ?70s, amazingly mammiferous beauties including Joan Brinkman, Virginia Bell,...
Das Kama Sutra gibt detaillierte Hinweise, wie man ihn mit Klapsen verwöhnen sollte. Italiener unserer Tage tatschen ihn an, bevor sie eine Wette abgeben. Amerikanerinnen lassen ihn von Schönheitschirurgen aufmöbeln, dass mittlerweile schon...
In 1953 Marlon Brando donned a black leather Perfecto motorcycle jacket, military cap, denim jeans, and engineer boots to portray Johnny, sneering leader of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, in The Wild One. In 1954 Tom of Finland abandoned brown leather...
Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian paperbacks with Frank Frazetta covers, and the late...
Sexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women's liberation, The Pill, Black Panthers, hippies; all these words and phrases entered our language in the turbulent 1960s. The decade started as an extension of the domestic '50s and...
The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediately began taking and distributing photos of naked women. The French led the way , and it was the French who prod...
In the late 1960s specialty bookstores selling magazines under the counter were replaced by sex shops, or "adult bookstores" in the U.S, at which point every subject, with few exceptions, was freely available.
In 1958 Milton Luros left his New York job designing and illustrating detective pulp magazines for North Hollywood, California. A year later, with a loan from an underworld figure, he founded a publishing empire that revolutionized men's magazines...
WWII was devastating to Europe, but the U.S. emerged with a robust economy. People who were encouraged to save every cent for the war effort now spent freely, including on magazines. The U.S. quickly came to dominate the men's magazine market.
When we think Tom of Finland we first picture muscular, macho young men in military gear. Tom's vision of masculine perfection was formed during his service as an officer during World War II . Though he served in the Finnish air force, it was the German...
As a boy, Tom's first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in the endless forests; threshing oats, rye, and barley on...
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he's long overdue...