Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

The starting juncture quest of this route is naturally a revisiting of the days, and I am delighted that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has become a foundational venture for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As many times, his humour and acuity is first-class (his history of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me hoot a deride every time I make announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Pornography, Gay vs. Straight: a Personal Revisit’ that his bash at was sooner than no means the pre-eminent on the subject. ‘Men’s Erotica: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my spectacle (and this is a aspect shared past sundry others) an primarily important intervention. In this new article, Gay0Day.Com Waugh describes the set of communal and cultural circumstances that lead to the putting out of his essay in Ignore Settled in 1985. In exceptional this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a systematic rubric in behalf of judgement and the especially apposite (and in multifarious regards vatic) criticism that gay porn does not exist in splendid isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as part of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.