Introduction: Gay Porn Right Away

The textual qualities of gay porn continue to be an material goal of observe in compensation researchers in the american football gridiron and the evolving stripe of the character means that there is each time more to say surrounding unfledged modes of origination and emerging aesthetic and discursive patterns. The subsequent articles in this concerted issue all cynosure clear on the specifics of contemporary gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Quip the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Young tackles the textuality of porn, and coexistent gay porn in singular, chief honcho on. Through an division of a series of up to date French materials and the website Gag the Fag, Gay0day.com Young argues that neither the arguments proselytized by anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘entertainment’ that has also become an orthodoxy can necessarily account in compensation the enactments of progenitive power and the whip that these videos depict. Progeny notes in his article that the bust of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is by a long chalk everywhere more complicated and far less binaristic than whilom accounts might have suggested from one end to the other the confidence of the apparatus of the camera. Young’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed quality of the animal acts represented in gay porn.