"In my drawings there is nothing political, no ideological preaching. I only think of the actual image. I hate the whole nazi ideology and extremism, but I was nevertheless forced to draw them - they had the sexiest uniforms!"

Even though Tom of Finland was more interested in a firm erection than political reflection, his significance for gay culture's self-image has been enormous. He has been accused of being a nazi and his drawings have been dismissed as pornography, but neither of these accusations stand up to scrutiny. There is no Übermensch ideal, in the drawings power is fluid and shifting and the object-viewer relationship that characterises pornography is not present in Tom's work. The viewer is already in the images, Tom's world is a world of participation rather than oppression. In the scrapbooks men from news and advertising images have been equipped with moustaches and giant phalluses. Everything is drawn in and is made a part of an eroticism world. This is Tom of Finland's first exhibition in Stockholm. At Ynglingagatan 1 drawings, posters and memorabilia are exhibited.