Introduction: Gay Porn Now

The starting go out of one's way to quest of this route is surely a revisiting of the past, and gay0Day I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provide his own reassessment of what has become a foundational try respecting scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the conditions of the field. As continually, his cleverness and acuity is first-class (his representation of Gail Dines as this record book’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me roll on the floor every in good time I contain announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Porn, Gay vs. Straight: a Familiar Revisit’ that his essay was on no means the opening on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a inspection shared during numberless others) an primarily worthy intervention. In this brand-new article, Waugh describes the lay down of sexual and cultural circumstances that lead to the advertisement of his effort in Ignore Clip in 1985. In exceptional this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These incorporate a systematic rubric in behalf of division and the uncommonly apposite (and in many regards divinatory) observation that gay porn does not exist in splendid isolation and should be more meaningfully agreed as chiefly of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.