Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

The starting juncture in behalf of this odyssey is naturally a revisiting of the last, and I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has develop a foundational venture because of scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the voice of the field. As eternally, his cleverness and acuity is admirable (his history of Gail Dines as this record book’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me laugh every in good time I contain announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Erotica, Gay vs. Right: a Familiar Revisit’ that his effort was on no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a inspection shared past many others) an specially substantial intervention. In this supplemental article, Waugh describes the set of sexual and cultural circumstances that dispose to the putting out of his tract in Jump Grieve in 1985. In demanding this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These include a systematic rubric instead of analysis and the uncommonly apposite (and in multifarious regards divinatory) observation that gay porn does not along in splendid isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.