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Tamotsu Yato: Homoerotic Photography in 60’s Japan

Via The International Cool Hunting Magazine:

“Tamotsu Yato (矢頭保), a photographer working in Japan from the mid-60s to the early 70s, created images of Japanese men that had a currency and evocativeness that were rare for his time. In his less-than-a-decade-long career, he photographed constantly and sometimes furiously, pointing his camera at friends, friends of friends, bodybuilding competitions, mens’ festivals and non-professional models from Tokyo’s thriving urban culture. Eventually, he developed the photographs into three distinct bodies of work which were published as “Young Samurai” (体道:日本のボディビルダーたち), “Naked Festival” (裸祭り) and “Otoko” (男 – Man). The last, “Otoko”, was inspired to a great degree by the photographer’s close friendship with novelist Yukio Mishima. Yato’s photographs portrayed a Japanese masculinity distinctly contrary to stereotypes, absolutely contemporary, wholly masculine, and completely Japanese. His death in 1973 cut short a pictorial investigation which promised to go deeper into a territory with little parallel or precedent.”

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FORESKIN MAN! Support Anti-Circumcision Bill With Anti-Semitic Hero ‘Foreskin Man’

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MAX READ @ THE GAWKER:

What better way to show your support for the San Francisco circumcision-ban ballot measure than by picking up a copy of “Foreskin Man No. 2,” in which the suspiciously Aryan “intactivist” superhero battles “Monster Mohel”?

“Nothing excites Monster Mohel more” , the Foreskin Man trading cards helpfully inform us, “than cutting into the penile flesh of an eight-day-old infant boy.” He sure does seem excited, doesn’t he? He also seems a little bit, uh, how you say, racist? Whoa there, P.C. police! The San Francisco Chronicle’s Debra Saunders asked creator Matthew Hess if the comic was anti-Semitic, to which Hess replied, “A lot of people have said that, but we’re not trying to be anti-Semitic. We’re trying to be pro-human rights.”

So there you have it. There’s nothing anti-Semitic about “Foreskin Man”! It’s just a delightful, family-friendly comic book about a guy who… I guess he owns, like, a circumcision museum? And he has these magic… boots? And, uh, there’s this gang of, I think, hippie bikers? “The Intactivist Underground”? Who steal stuff from hospitals? It’s kind of a trip.