IRL Bus-Boy + ADVOCATE full contribution (Patreon)

Kia ora my lovely Grutlings!

I was totally cruised by this beautiful thin 20-something while waiting for a bus. A shame I needed to go somewhere because he gave me those direct "f-me" eyes. I have absolutely no cruising game, so it was quite the event for me. Drew this picture inspired by him afterwards. Didn't really capture his likeness, but still came out kinda hot.

In other news I contributed to a Dazed magazine article which you can read here : 

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/56787/1/tracing-future-of-queer-erotic-art-with-tom-of-finland-foundation-durk-dehner 

I had written a bit more, so I'm just posting the my full contribution below after the prompt : 

Could provide a short statement about how winning affected  your art making, and how you feel about the current state/culture of  erotic art? Especially how you deal with the kind of censorship many  artists face on social media

My aim is to illustrate how fun sex can be between expressive and flawed individuals. While recently artists have been able to proliferate through online social spaces, there is still a stigma associated with artists who depict erotically charged images. Some of humanities most ancient artefacts are examples of erotic art. Despite this, it is still considered a highly controversial subject which is only permissible through narrow fields of expression. During the subsequent ages where purity politics took the forefront of policy, sexuality itself has been weaponised to pressure individuals into certain heteronormative conformities. Even now in pop culture sexual imagery is still primarily realised through the exploitation of gaunt women’s bodies, their passive face directed at the viewer as they drift in a dreamlike unobtainable airbrushed languidity. That’s why The Tom of Finland Foundation’s Emerging Erotic Artist is such an important event. Through their promotion of erotic art as an integral legitimate art form which expands across a range of styles, they’re rewriting the narrative that erotic art isn’t shameful or limited to so-called degenerates & deviants. Becoming the grand prize winner catapulted my otherwise unremarkable career in the arts. I had built upon a career as a genre artist often depicting battle-ready characters. Today, I work exclusively on erotic material. It says much about our contemporary society that fantasy images depicting instruments of death, conflict and wartime misery are standard. I think it would benefit present society if our harmless innate desires were celebrated in place of performative aggression. It’s certainly a lot easier to wank to.

Anyway, I'm sure you wonderful Grutlings aren't here so much for writing about society's relationship with erotic art 😅 I'm working on the POTM which is looking particularly delicious at the moment! Hopefully will be with you soon.

Thank you for your kind contribution 🙏