It was so shockingly open when it first came out, but I never thought of doing similar things. I know the work of Tom of Finland, of course. Really upfront, no difficult artistic layers or lack of talent in between you and the image. To me your drawings are an absolute turn on. I enjoyed doing it and it was only then that I thought there would be a market for this. But what really got me started on this was when a British publisher approached me to do a book on gay kamasutra.
I made commercial illustrations all my life, romantic book covers and such. The erotic stuff I only started about five years ago. It looks like you’ve done this all your life. Obviously, most gays like big cocks and handsome guys, but I don’t sit there getting aroused when I’m doing these drawings. Most of the time the level of pornographic drawings is so low that you only get a rough schedule of what the sexual fantasy should be about, but on an artistic level there’s no arousal whatsoever. It was in a sexshop in the Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam. When I first saw your drawings, I had a hard-on before I knew it. I don’t know if we should talk art-wise or sex-wise about your work.
