Back to the days when men were men and sex was carefree<\/p>\n
In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom\u2019s Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky\u2014a common male name in Finland\u2014followed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Then in 1968 Tom settled on Kake, a dark-haired, mustached leatherman who often wore a tight white T-shirt bearing the motto \u201cFucker.\u201d Kake lived up to this moniker, a sort of post-Stonewall, hyper-masculine Johnny Appleseed traveling the world on his motorcycle to spread the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex. Tom lived out many of his most personal fantasies through Kake, and Kake\u2019s international fans made him the template for what came to be known as the gay clone look of the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1986, Tom published 26 episodes of Kake adventures, most as 20-page booklets.<\/p>\n
Tom of Finland \u2013 The Complete Kake Comics collects all of these stories in one volume. Return with Kake to the days when men were men, sex was carefree, and everyone wore a big thick mustache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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