Bruno B.’s work is a part of the Tom of Finland canon and is significant in its sexualizing of bara-type masculine bodies in Handjobs and other publications.
Sunday Comics: Josman’s “Cellmates”
I feel better when I don’t think too hard about what’s truly being conveyed in setting this scene in lockup. Or in fetishizing convicts and criminals in the way they’re fetishized here. Or in the reasons Josman found it necessary to the story for the conspicuously white/blonde and bald prisoner to refer to it as his “big white cock.”
Father’s Day: A Long Talk with Dad, the Creator of Handjobs Magazine
“It all began when we used to write each other bedtime stories and hide them under each other’s pillows so we could discover them when we went to bed. In April 1991 we had enough of these stories to photocopy them at work, bring them home, and fold and staple them together into crude magazines.”
Why Handjobs Magazine (Still) Matters
Feelings of isolation and outsider statuses only ease when humans can see that others are so very like them and want the same things. Growing up when and where I did (the American South in the 80s and 90s), I wasn’t often exposed to extremely sexual situations, or even sex in general with any regularity. […]
The Nifty Archive’s Curator Talks About the Uncertain Future of Erotic Literature
The Nifty Archive has been dear to me for as long as I’ve known it, but what becomes of an all-text empire in the time of unlimited, uncensored hardcore visuals? I can still remember being a bad kid on the internet and waiting endlessly for my parents to leave me alone with the computer long […]
Story Time: “The Jock and the Janitor” by Anonamous
Men from different worlds finding comfort in one another is always my jam. Handjobs Magazine is truly the gift that keeps on giving forever. One day I suppose we’ll run out of things to find and examine in those pages. But not today! The Jock and the Janitor first appeared in the July 2003 […]
