Introduction: Gay Porn Now

Noah Tsika in ‘Lewd Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Dubious Cinema’s Unsimulated Shagging Scenes’ discusses the various streaming platforms through which gay porn is increasingly circulated. Issues local piracy and the outlawed uploading of copyrighted satisfied are of undoubtedly tenacious concerns in place of the porn labour; despite that, Tsika identifies a somewhat more specific interfere with of contemplate in hierarchy to make observations upon the ways in which ‘denotation’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s key be germane to here is the machine throughout which variously titillating or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their unprecedented frame of reference within sunken and cracked cinema and Gay0Day repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in status to call to mind that the prepare of appropriation and repackaging that takes point here reduces the civic and cultural power of the remarkable provenance texts that are repurposed.