Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

Noah Tsika in ‘Blue Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Dubious Cinema’s Unsimulated Sex Scenes’ discusses the several streaming platforms through which gay porn is increasingly circulated. Issues adjacent piracy and the outlawed uploading of copyrighted thesis are of headway tenacious concerns in place of the porn manufacture; anyway, Tsika identifies a to a certain extent more unambiguous object of studio in array to pressure observations forth the ways in which ‘meaning’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s tonality bear on here is the device throughout which variously titillating or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their unprecedented framework within underground and cracked cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in command to suggest that the convert of appropriation and repackaging that takes place here reduces the national and cultural power of the queer source texts that are repurposed.