Introduction: Gay Porn Promptly

The starting point in behalf of this wander is necessarily a revisiting of the last, and I am charmed that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has become a foundational try for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the state of the field. As eternally, his wit and acuity is admirable (his description of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me go into hysterics every schedule I have decipher it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Right: a Exclusive Revisit’ that his endeavour was sooner than no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a aspect shared during numberless others) an primarily important intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the introduce of sexual and cultural circumstances that dispose to the putting out of his essay in Jump Clip in 1985. In exceptional this reappraisal usefully works to jog the memory readers of the innovations contained therein. These include a systematized rubric for interpretation and the uncommonly apposite (and in multifarious regards divinatory) word that gay porn does not along in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as part of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.