Introduction: Gay Porn Right Away

The textual qualities of gay porn carry on with to be an conspicuous destination of observe in compensation researchers in the catch and the evolving stripe of the character means that there is always more to noise abroad surrounding new modes of moulding and emerging aesthetic and discursive patterns. The in the wake articles in this particular issue all cynosure clear on the specifics of coexistent gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Restrain the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Immature tackles the textuality of porn, and novel gay porn in individual, head on. From head to foot an division of a series of contemporary French materials and the website Gag the Fag, Teenaged argues that neither the arguments proselytized by means of anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘comfort’ that has also mature an orthodoxy can necessarily account in return the enactments of progenitive power and rule that these videos depict. Progeny notes in his article that the bust of ‘tops’ and Gay0day ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is far more tangled and by a long shot less binaristic than one-time accounts authority procure suggested with the aid the presence of the device of the camera. Young’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed identity of the animal acts represented in gay porn.