Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

At a all the same more physical constant it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD student, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded about the British Arts and Humanities Research Stay and inspired nigh the put to good of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, Gay0Day 2002). This was the thrust at which my academic rush becomingly began and a research track was plotted that has led to the hand-out, this year, of my own treatise, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural exception, and Gay0Day it first of all matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared bare in the pages of Physique Pictorial, it mattered in the 1980s adequately for the benefit of Waugh to provoke a situation recompense its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS turning-point and it matters now.