Near the midpoint of director Dome Karukoski`s Tom of Finland , artist Touko Laaksonen sits on a bench, catching up with the man who was once his superior officer when they served in the Finnish army during World War II, years before. Laaksonen would later gain international fame as Tom of Finland, producer of gleefully pornographic, if anatomically dubious, depictions of idealized men in a variety of species of fervently fetishized, hypermasculine drag: burly construction workers, muscular soldiers, beefy cops and, especially, jacked leathermen - proud members of that aforementioned club who, lacking access to the seemingly requisite Harleys or Ducatis or Triumphs, ingeniously found other...
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