Introduction: Gay Porn Now

The joint here between societal, cultural and state changes and developments in gay porn is not a trivial one. These events, whilst variously informative, nonetheless climate as if they belong to a distant gone, Gay0day so it is perchance more surprising for the benefit of porn scholars to note that it is at once during the course of 30 years since Thomas Waugh wrote the foundational go about ‘Men’s Porn: Gay vs Straight’, in which he famous the centrality of homoeroticism to gay culture:

I belong to a cultural and political context – the urban gay virile community/ies – in which soiled pictures have a hard-won centrality, both historically and at present. (1985, 30)