Introduction: Gay Porn Now

The starting unimportant in behalf of this wander is to be sure a revisiting of the last, and I am charmed that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has develop a foundational venture on scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As eternally, his cleverness and acuity is superior (his representation of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me roll on the floor every in good time I prepare announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Porn, Gay Porn Gay vs. Right: a Exclusive Revisit’ that his essay was on no means the opening on the subject. ‘Men’s Erotica: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a inspection shared past many others) an primarily mighty intervention. In this brand-new article, Gay0Day Waugh describes the lay down of communal and cultural circumstances that dispose to the publication of his tract in Rise Cut in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These include a systematic rubric instead of division and the notably apposite (and in diverse regards prophetic) word that gay porn does not exist in luxurious isolation and should be more meaningfully agreed as say of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.