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M4M IN Uniform

HERE’S TO ALL THE BOYS IN BLUE OR BLACK OR WHITE OR GRAY OR KHAKI. JASON P FREEMAN UNDRESSES THE FANTASY, FASHION AND FETISH OF MEN IN UNIFORM. JORGE FREIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

36 DNA We’re living in a Tom Of Finland fantasy But Aubuchon insisted, telling the officer “it to carry you to safety then fuck you brutally. world. Formally dressed military men, leathered- doesn’t cost anything to take a test drive” and Firefighter and military uniforms tap into the up motorcycle police, white-slacked sailors, track it would be his “pleasure” to give the officer same emotional stimuli. Police officers have an stars in muscle-hugging tights – homoeroticism a “quick go around”. The gesture would serve added authority associated with their uniforms is all around. If Touko Laaksonen (aka Tom Of as Aubuchon’s appreciation of the officer’s that is truly hot. Plus they do have more fun Finland), were alive today it would appear to important civil service. The two would take tools to put you in your place.” him that the men of his imagination had walked the car for an extended drive, share a little off the page and into the sensual world. college frat house-type sex talk which would THE FASHION Tom’s niche was the uniform: the gym parlay into a front-seat and maybe Military camouflage cargo shorts are pumped physiques of soldiers, sailors, marines something more – Aubuchon had the whole prominently displayed every summer at and hot cops stuffed into the tightest of seam- scene played out in his head before he even Abercrombie & Fitch. Come winter, navy- stretched costumes that exuded authority and retrieved the keys from the office. styled pea coats hit the racks everywhere from sexual potency; biceps, pecs and outrageously Twenty minutes later, the two returned Old Navy to Michael Kors. There was the erect nipples bursting through cloth, barely from their test drive. The convertible top colonial uniform-inspired women’s collection containing vein-throbbing Superman-sized was down, the cop had a big smile on his of the 1980s by Saint Laurent, the armored- dicks swollen beneath bulging seams, their face and Aubuchon’s blue balls were about to sleeved menswear of Ralph Lauren in the gargantuan profiles inching down the inside burst. Before the officer could finish thanking mid-’90s and sailor-striped sweaters for a time leg of a too-tight trouser. Aubuchon for their no-strings-attached became synonymous with Jean Paul Gaultier. Today, if you look around, we appear to sojourn, the then 26-year-old salesman After the millennium, John Varvatos, Marc live in an ongoing actualisation of Tom’s abandoned the cop, the Anthony, Marc Jacobs, Kenneth world in which the men are brawny and the unsold car, and his Cole and apparently every big briefs are bulging. It is an arousing real-time, composure as he ran to name male fashion house actively living amalgamation of fantasy, fashion and the office bathroom to implemented some element of fetishism, and it’s everywhere. Call it soldier relieve himself of some military dress and/or utilitarian chic, hot-cop/hard-cock couture, Class A outfitting into their high- authority, BDSM business wear, old guard, priced, high-styled outerwear as new guard – and please excuse the cliché though it were standard design: – but there’s just something about a man uniforms, especially those of in uniform. the armed forces, continue to make an impact and influence THE FANTASY international haute couture as Rory Aubuchon is a 29-year-old former well as individual bohemian car salesman, turned political-science fashionistas because – whether grad student. He doesn’t speak very sold in a discount department nostalgically of his prior profession store or a high-end boutique – (probably because he wasn’t very good uniform-inspired fashion is as at it, selling only two models during old as fashion itself. his eight-month tenure). Yet the time a Undeniably, nobody’s beat cop strutted onto his lot was one he been doing soldier chic for will not soon forget. The officer wasn’t as long or, arguably, as well as interested in purchasing a car that day, German luxury fashion house Hugo Tom Of Finland or seemingly at all in the near future accentuated the potent Boss. Founded in 1924, the company’s – he was just killing time on his lunch sex appeal of the man in originator, as well as its fiscal success, break. However, lack of commission uniform. In his images, can be attributed to the National cops and soldiers assert notwithstanding, the car salesman simply their authority through Socialist Party of that era. Early rough, forced sex with just could not let this guy go without taking powerful other men. advertisements for the clothing maker, him for a test drive. sexual circa 1930s, even regale the manufacture “He had the body of a lumberjack,” tension. and sale of Nazi uniforms made by Aubuchon fondly recalls of the burly Despite double “Boss”. And while this isn’t to imply that policeman. “Bald head, a shortly trimmed entendre, flirtatiously “friendly” touching and anything dressed up by the Third Reich is sexy brown , huge shoulders and chest, metaphorical propositions, nothing happened worthy of praise or propagation, the achtung- and curly, dark hair popping out from his blue with his hot-cop/car sex fantasy, save for the demanding black duds of the SS – with a collar. The cop was hot in his own right, but forever dividend-yielding deposit in his wank blitzkrieg of bling ostentatiously adorning his uniform – complete with mirrored aviator bank. Aubuchon doesn’t even remember the its lapels, a left bicep-sheathing armband sunglasses, a thick, black leather belt and gun officer’s name, or if it had occurred to him and jodhpurs laterally flailing at the crotch holster with handcuffs and everything made to even ask. All he remembers is his huge, before being tucked into a tight pair of black him look like he’d walked off of a comic looming sexual presence, and that he was cop. leather, knee-high riding boots – irrefutably strip. It all just made him irresistibly perfect, It was all about his uniform (which his law- mirror an aesthetic sketched into the earliest and I noticed him being really into this little enforcing body filled out perfectly) and the mass publications of gay male erotica. The two-seater convertible on the lot.” fantasy it invoked. conceptual comparison of which is famously Aubuchon invited the officer to give the “It comes down to what the uniform touted by one of the earliest sketchers of mass convertible a test run, but the cop declined at represents,” Aubuchon says in retrospect. published gay-male erotica: Finnish artist first, as he had no real intention of buying; he “Police officers are protectors and heroes. He is Touko Laaksonen. said he didn’t “want to waste anyone’s time”. strong and fearless. You know he will be there In the 1993 artist biography, Tom Of >>

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PHOTOGRAPHY IMPACT PHOTOGRAPHY Being taken into custody by a sexy police officer is definitely funbut being pinned to the ground by a stocky dude right after his wrestling match totally does it for me.

>> Finland: His Life And Times, Laaksonen is quoted as saying, “The whole Nazi philosophy, the racism and all that, is so hateful to me, but of course I drew them anyway – they had the sexiest uniforms! ...Naturally the designer of the Nazi’s uniforms was gay!” It’s this causal progression of sexualizing service attire that inevitably, logically and definitively conceives...

THE FETISH In an ever-evolving gay population, historically segregated to specific, socially designated urban enclaves where bookstores and bathhouses publicly operate on the same stretch of street as the local LGBT social- service center, all the sexy cultural trends and sexual taboos are apt to intermingle. Add the gay male predilection for the fast Top: Real life UK firemen. and flashy, and boundaries distinguishing Below: Joe uniform fashion from Manganiello as a fireman stripper. in uniform fetishism Magic Mike become fabulously askew. In some cases, the boundaries don’t even exist, one bleeding into the other and coagulating to create a fashionable sexual fixation such as the gay fetish community’s International Mister Leather and International Mister Rubber competitions. Both of these IMPACT PHOTOGRAPHY IMPACT events include a reverence for the burgeoning “New Guard” uniform- tailored archetype in >> PHOTOGRAPHY

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Above: A real French sailor. Below: Jean Paul Gaultier’s navy inspired stripes. Opposite: Matt Bomer in navy whites. in Magic Mike

40 DNA >> their active pageantry. This lifestyle of sensationally hybridized The whole Nazi uniform styling with subversive sexuality is one that New York-based fashion student, philosophy, the radical faerie and sister of perpetual indulgence, Daniel Johnston, 31, has lived his racism and all that, entire adult life. However, Johnston’s uniform- based sexual preference favors sports training is so hateful to me, over the military’s basic training. “Personally, I am a huge fan of sports but of course uniforms,” Johnston shares. “Being taken into custody by a sexy police officer is definitely fun but being pinned to the ground by a stocky I drew them dude right after his wrestling match totally does it for me.” anyway – they Johnston’s sporty interests started for him in high school. Standing at over 6’3” had the sexiest [1.9 metres] and weighing in at over 230 pounds [104kg] during his teens, Johnston’s uniforms! physicality seemed perfectly fitted for the wrestling or basketball teams. However, he was too shy to take part in the athletics, for fear his sporty cock watching would lead to the discovery of his forbidden sexual desires. “I loved watching the teams,” he says. “I was kind of creepy. I love a man in loose-fitting shorts, watching his cock sway back and forth as he goes for a jog or even just walking around, for that matter.” As an adult, Johnston transformed his repressed sexual fears and urges into something he openly embraces in his everyday life. Using his own homemade unitard and singlet-inspired fashion to accent and enhance his own wardrobe, and personal sense of sexiness, Johnston mostly uses these pieces to pad his balls and taint when biking or for added warmth in winter. According to him though, that can make for some seriously sexy times. He remembers one time in particular: “I met up with my friend who can eat a fat ass any day of the week,” he recalls. “As we were Fan art still fetishises the getting steamy and tearing off clothes, he saw Nazi uniform: I was wearing my red, one-piece long johns. illustration by This got his cock all crazy hard and he flipped Ernest John Darryl. me over, grabbed some scissors (the suit only had an opening in the front). He cut a tiny hole near the top of my ass then slowly slid the scissors down my crack, grazing me with the sharp metal blades.” The remainder of Johnston’s anecdote becomes too pornographic to retain an air of journalistic integrity but the moral of his story is: “Now I always have an ass zipper in my one-piece suits.” Above: A real New “I think we all wear costumes,” Johnston says Jersey cop poses for a calendar. regarding lifestyles, like his, which swirl the Here: Porn star Ken ideologies of fashion and fetish. “Each piece Ryker as a highway patrol cop for COLT [of any particular fetish-wear] be it handcuff, Studios. German luxury fashion firehouse helmet or lycra singlet, has its own house Hugo Boss, erotic association to play with. It’s all about founded in 1924, can partly attribute its early incorporating power play into each piece and commercial success making it functional for sex... with an eye for to creating the Nazi H uniform. beauty and an appetite for lust.”

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