CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT -- TOM OF FINLAND

(Did You Sleep With the Models?)

Do you know the work of artist Toukio Valio Laaksonen? Probably not. But Tom of Finland -- of course. His birth name is unknown outside his native country, though his work is inescapable and his reputation international. The appeal of his art has increased from the fifties, when it first appeared in physique magazines, to the present.