Back in 2016, we used to make sticker sheets in an almost artisanal way. We would go to el Ricaurte, a neighborhood in Bogotá where many printing services are concentrated, stop at one shop to print five meters of our designs on vinyl, leaving the layout in the hands of the shop assistant, and then, two hours later, rush to another shop for the kiss cut, hoping the files from two different places would somehow align and leave us with a sticker sheet by the end of the day. Every time the cutting guides shifted, the machine would begin slicing into the illustration, forcing the operator to stop the process and manually reposition the five-meter print by eye until the run was complete. We would like to offer a public apology to everyone involved in the production of our stickers between 2015 and 2016, for being the most insufferable clients with the most annoying task someone can get in a printing shop. We still remember the look on the face of an operator who, devoid of all hope, confessed to us that we had been working for ten hours and had two more to go; it was 20:00. After a day of torturing people in el Ricaurte, we would go back home and cut the roll into individual, randomly placed sheets. That is the reason why our sticker sheet looked like this:
And yes, we would have sold that. Ten years later, and with more experience in printing and production, we felt it was about time to make something again for El Corruptor. As the image above shows, we are strong believers that something is better done than perfect, yet we had some conditions for the production: we wanted to work with a single supplier, and we wanted to be in control of the process and numbers. Finding a supplier took us three months. The first attempt of making a sticker sheet was the Pinpin design, printed in China. The quality and printing possibilities are great, but we do not speak Mandarin, so we felt the prices for an actual production were too high. We considered, then, to produce the sticker in Colombia, but the economy in the country has changed a lot since our humble beginnings, and the price of printing a sticker sheet was 50 cents cheaper than in Europe. Insane. The final, and more logical choice, was to print them in the Netherlands.
As poor artists, we have always supported affordable prices. However, the economic conditions in 2026 make it impossible for a small business to compete on price. It looks grim, but unless you have a strong financial muscle, it is getting very hard to have your own business in the current economy. This should be a sign that we must support small businesses and make our own weird projects to prevent an uninspiring environment where only those with money keep putting things in the world. The 15 euros make our sticker sheet closer to the prices found for artists in conventions and not other gay artists, but we did the best to include taxes and shipping (except the single posters). It is the most sustainable price we could give.
Now, talking about the designs, we have the Chastity and Bouldering sticker sheets. We cannot remember when was the first time we came across a chastity cage, but they have grown so much in popularity and complexity of designs that it was impossible for us not to make a small homage to them as objects we love. The idea came to mind one afternoon, seeing a couple choosing chastity cages for each other because they were getting married. Were they taking turns to fuck each other? Were they a two-bottoms relationship? Too many questions and not enough context! The picture was enough to push us to make this illustration, and now a sticker sheet is printed on transparent vinyl. They ended up choosing two flat cages, respect!
The Bouldering design was inspired by an old hookup, a climbing enthusiast whose group of bouldering friends later showed us that horniness and sexual fluidity were kinda the norm in that context. This is totally anecdotal evidence, but we did the research, and the archetype of a guy who loves being barefoot, lives in a messy room full of mandalas and Tibetan prayer flags, would fuck your brain out on a mattress on the floor, and then ghost you kept repeating itself often enough to be considered a thing. Regardless, they have beautiful bodies, strong grips, and are very flexible, which is always sexy. The sticker sheet is printed on white vinyl with tinny dick and asshole shape holds.
El Corruptor’s webstore is now live in trial mode. Continuing the saga of paying more as a small business, finding a payment platform was a whole task. Even though we don’t believe our work is particularly radical, owing to its sexual tone, most payment providers do not want to get involved and tag us as a risk to their business model. We mention this because it is important for other artists working with themes about sexuality to consider that their work will face challenges not only to get exposure on social media, but also in finding services that allow their basic function online. Shipping does not change between one or three items, hence the sticker and poster packs were made thinking of people who would be interested in getting more, while keeping the shipping cost included.
We are trying the current supplier, payment provider, and shipping method with PostNL, so please be patient with us while we tune things up.