Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

At a nevertheless more individual level it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD admirer, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by way of the British Arts and Humanities Research Cabinet and inspired by the duty of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the point at which my academic career properly began and a research course was plotted that has led to the issuance, Gay0Day this year, of my own monograph, Gay Filth: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural exception, and it uniquely matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared bare in the pages of After Clear, it mattered in the 1980s adequacy against Waugh to provoke a invalid for its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the midst of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.