Erotic Art Usually Just Titillates. His Erotic Art, Though? Changed The Minds Of So. Many. People.

Tom of Finland (birth name: Touko Laaksonen) was an erotic artist, but he was so much more than that title suggests because of two things: who he was drawing and when he was drawing them.

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