Sex and erotic images are way too often seen as something for the male heterosexual audience only – at least they're seen as the main consumers which is probably true too. Still, there's a lot of erotic art and images that are intended for either heterosexual women or…. in this case for gay men.

Tom of Finland (born as Touko Laaksonen in 1920) was often called ”the master of pencil” because of his awesome skills with that tool. Tom started drawing homoerotic images of men at an early age but kept them to himself – which is quite understandable considering the fact that being gay and acting gay was in fact illegal in many countries while he was young (in the 21st century that seems a bit absurd, huh?). Fortunately later on he decide to start publishing it because even as a straight guy I've got loads of respect for his skills and imagination.

The men in Tom's drawings are slightly cartoonish because of their overly big muscles and male organs but really detailed and unique. Even the New York's Museum of Modern art has bought several pieces of his art for their permanent collection – an honor that not quite everyone gets.