Hybrid Lube – 237 ml – Tom Of Finland

Tom’s Hybrid Lube

An 8 oz (237 ml) pump bottle of Tom’s Hybrid Lube. Hybrids are a mixture of water based and silicone lubricants, so it stays wet for longer than a water based lube, but cleans off much easier than a silicone lube. Comes in a metal cannister with distinctive artwork design by Tom of Finland. Includes T.O.F dog tag.

Tom also has a Water Based Lube available at Tabu Adult Boutique.

Tom of Finland

The demand for what Tom always called his “dirty drawings” grew quickly. But neither erotic art nor homosexual art paid very well in the Fifties. He soon stopped playing the piano in order to devote the time to his drawing, but it would be 1973 before Tom of Finland was making enough money for Touko Laaksonen to be able to quit his daytime job in advertising. Once he could devote his efforts full-time to his erotic drawing, Tom combined photorealistic attention to detail with his wildest sexual fantasies. This produced a body of work that, for sheer homoerotism, will probably never be surpassed.

1976 was the year of Tom’s first art exhibition, in Hamburg, Germany, but that experience was negative (all but one of the drawings were stolen). It would be 1978 before he would agree to another exhibit. In Los Angeles, for which he made his first trip to America. Over the next couple of years, a series of exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, with trips to America for each one, turned the shy Helsinki artist into an international gay celebrity with friends the like of Etienne and Robert Mapplethorpe. The business end of his career was taken up by a Canadian American, Durk Dehner. Under his capable management Tom at last had financial security.