[lbo-talk] Tom of Finland as eroticization of fascism

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Jul 14 10:23:23 PDT 2003


Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium ... curious appropriation of Nazi iconography (The Night Porter, Tom of Finland's Nazi cheesecake), which Susan Sontag attributes in "Fascinating Fascism" to the ... http://www.levity.com/markdery/borg.htm

http://www.nettime.org/desk-mirror/zkp/resistnc.txt ... call to mind the Nazi cheesecake theme that is Tom of Finland's guilty pleasure ... to the natural link between sadomasochism and fascism...

Deviants' Dictionary: Bibliography ... to piercing, tattooing and bodybuilding to an appreciation of Tom of Finland. ... Jeffreys 1985, 'Sadomasochism: The Erotic Cult of Fascism', typescript . http://www.queernet.org/deviant/books.htm

Walked in Line lyrics by Joy Divison (which y'all know was the name for prostitutes in the Nazi death camps)

All dressed in uniforms so fine, They drank and killed to pass the time, Wearing the shame of all their crimes, With measured steps, they walked in line.

They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line.

They carried pictures of their wives, And numbered tags to prove their lives, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line.

Full of a glory never seen, They made it through the whole machine, To never question anymore, Hypnotic trance, they never saw, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line,

They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, They walked in line, Walked in line, Walked in line.

-- Michael Pugliese, damn if those Tom of Finland artworks aren't so alluring though!



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