8 May 2025

Tom of Finland Day: Celebrating a Fetish&Kinky Art Icon

Tom of Finland, the pseudonym of Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920–1991), was a Finnish artist renowned for his unmistakable homoerotic drawings. Laaksonen began his career as a commercial illustrator but was already producing what he called his “dirty drawings” in his youth—illustrations of muscular men in overtly homosexual scenarios that would […]
1 April 2026

Kinky: etymology, meaning, and the culture of a word that defines a community

In recent years, the term kinky has increasingly entered everyday language, often used in a superficial or imprecise way. To truly understand its meaning, it is essential to start from its origin: kinky derives from the English word kink, which literally means a twist, knot, or bend in something that […]