Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

The starting point quest of this odyssey is to be sure a revisiting of the last, and I am delighted that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has mature a foundational try because of scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the voice of the field. As many times, his cleverness and acuity is superior (his representation of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me go into hysterics every schedule I contain review it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Unqualified: Gay0Day a Exclusive Revisit’ that his endeavour was past no means the opening on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my observation (and this is a aspect shared by many others) an particularly important intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the lay down of communal and cultural circumstances that lead to the pamphlet of his essay in Jump Clip in 1985. In demanding this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These include a planned rubric repayment for analysis and the especially apposite (and in multifarious regards prophetic) observation that gay porn does not be present in luxurious isolation and should be more meaningfully agreed as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.