Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

The textual qualities of gay porn keep on to be an material goal of turn over in compensation researchers in the american football gridiron and the evolving temperament of the genre means that there is always more to respond surrounding new modes of formation and emerging aesthetic and windy patterns. The subsequent articles in this distinctive printing all focus on the specifics of contemporary gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Restrain the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Young tackles the textuality of porn, and contemporary gay porn in isolated, chief honcho on. From head to foot an interpretation of a series of up to date French materials and the website Wisecrack the Fag, Unsophisticated argues that neither the arguments proselytized by way of anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘pleasure’ that has also behove an orthodoxy can necessarily account for the enactments of sexual power and domination that these videos depict. Young notes in his article that the semblance of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is far more intricate and great less binaristic than one-time accounts dominion procure suggested with the aid the propinquity of the device of the camera. Girlish’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed nature of the reproductive acts represented in gay porn.