Gay Erotica Museum

Charles-Antoine, 48, is a single Torontonian, a gorgeous-looking man, a well-hung dude who adores fucking guys. In the bar scene, he is known as Chan because Charles-Antoine seems too long or too hard to pronounce, especially if you’ve had a couple of drinks or if your French is poor. There are two conditions to have ass play with Chan: you must agree to a bareback fuck, and wear a jockstrap that you will donate to this Top icon. When he enters Woody’s Bar in the Gay Village, Bottoms almost line up the offer him a drink and to show off their jockstrap. He gets to pick a different one every time. So much that Chan now has the largest collection of jocks in Northern America, maybe even in the world.

Is Charles-Antoine a collector or a hoarder? Collectors typically acquire possessions in an organized, intentional, and targeted fashion. Once acquired, the items are removed from normal usage, but are subject to being admired, and displayed to others. Acquisition of objects in people with hoarding disorder is largely impulsive, with little active planning, and triggered by the sight of an object that could be owned. Objects acquired by hoarders often lack a consistent theme, whereas those of collectors are narrowly focused on a particular topic.  

Charles-Antoine started by collecting jockstraps, then moved on to collecting dildos. The masterpiece that started it all was Jeff Stryker’s realistic cock molded directly from this adult film star’s hard-on: 10 inches long and 7.5 inches in circumference. Other exclusive replica cocks perfectly capture every detail, and mimic the unique feel of real skin. Here are a few examples of Chan’s collection: Ricky Johnson’s 10-inch brown dildo, Anton Harden’s 11-inch brown rod, Hip Hop Star Safaree Samuels’ 12-inch dark brown cock. When ass-playing, Chan likes to use the 13-inch brown veined cock casted directly from super porn star Bam, a guarantee of pure ecstasy. No one has yet agreed to have Dick Rambone’s bazooka rammed down their back door; this monster white cock measures 17 inches, with veined shaft. The second-floor corridor of Chan’s house in Cabbagetown is lined up with his collection of dildos, each one placed on a separate shelf.

Jockstraps and dildos are not the only prized items in Chan’s collection. He has another fetish that led him to gather leather gears such as harness, chaps and boots. To display them, along with the jockstraps, he has bought close to fifty look-alike mannequin frames of White guys, Black dudes, Asian twinks, and Indian studs, all spread across every level of the house. Some are muscular and beefy, there are a few slim and smooth frames, plus hairy bears, but no androgenous models. Virility is the key word; a large majority of the mannequins have big cut dicks; they are in every sexual position you can imagine: kissing, nipple and cock sucking, rimming, face-fucking, ass-fucking, fist-fucking.

Cabbagetown is a neighbourhood in central Toronto. It features the largest continuous area of Victorian housing in all North America. Charles-Antoine’s semi-detached home has a spacious dinning room, a cozy living-room with a fireplace and four bedrooms. One of them has been converted into a gallery centered on the works of Montréal artist Yvon Goulet (https://www.gaydemon.com/stories/Sex_is_90_in_your_mind__32302.html). Here are few of the names given to over fifteen works on display: Gym Queen, Delivery Boy, Say Uncle, Cocksucker, Jogger’s Bulge, Hot Bear, Dandy, Beefcake, Nipple Play and Skinhead Boner. A leather tryptic called Chaps-Jockstrap-Harness occupies the full wall in front of a large bench where guys can kiss, suck and fuck as much as they want. Lube is even provided, plus condoms if that is your thing.

At first, Charles-Antoine used all his vacation and sick leave days to drive or fly to various places bound to have exactly what he was collecting for. He borrowed money from the bank and from close friends, but that got him deep into debt. Fortunately, when his mother died of cancer, he inherited a substantial sum of money and got out of the red. He now has carte blanche to continue buying gay erotica objects.

The bedroom next to the Yvon Goulet Gallery has become a library devoted to Tom of Finland. As you probably already know, Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and for his influence on late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade.

Charles-Antoine has collected well-known books like XXL, The Rope, The Arts of Pleasure, and Dirty Pictures. Some sell for over $100 US. A whole shelf contains Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection (Vol. 1–5). You can also flip through The Complete Kake Comics. For more serious reading, there is a section that includes books like F. Valentine Hooven’s Tom of Finland: His Life and Times (1993) and Tom of Finland: Life and Work of a Gay Hero (2012), plus specialized works like Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity and Homosexuality, by Mischa Ramakers, and Tom of Finland: Ennennäkemätöntä – Unforeseen, by Berndt Arell and Kati Mustola.

A few seats are installed in the library to watch films like Daddy and the Muscle Academy, directed by Ilppo Pohjola (1991), and the first biopic entitled simply Tom of Finland (2017). In one corner of the library, you can admire a set of three first class stamps produced by the Finnish postal service in 2014; the stamps include portions of an illustration of a nude man sitting between the legs of another man dressed as a police officer; the other depicts nude buttocks with a man’s face included between the thighs. The stamp set exceeded expectations by the postal service with pre-orders from 178 countries, making it the best-selling stamp set in the service’s history.

Though Chan’s library features the best documents on the works by Tom of Finland, the main attraction remains a sling right in the middle of the room, Crisco grease on hand. It was a popular attraction when Charles-Antoine inaugurated his Gay Erotica Museum, the first in Canada. He paid for Rent Boys to enact every scene in the museum. Visitors who came with one idea in mind – cruising a guy willing to kiss, suck, rim, fuck or be fucked –, had a free hand with these Rent Boys.

Veuve Clicquot champagne, foie gras, beluga caviar, sushi, oysters, escargots, filet mignon brochettes and a variety of Brie, Camembert, stuffed goat cheese or Cambozola were served by waiters in jockstraps. Total catering cost: $23,999 CAN. Fringe benefit: a Black rent boy hung like Dick Rambone became Chan’s lover and moved in within three months. Dildos were of no use and jockstraps were too small for his monster cock, but the sling was used on a daily basis.