Introduction: Gay Porn Promptly

The textual qualities of gay porn keep on to be an material focus of study looking for researchers in the field and the evolving stripe of the character means that there is eternally more to disclose about new modes of origination and emerging aesthetic and digressive patterns. The subsequent articles in this particular printing all core on the specifics of coexistent gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Quip the Fag, Gay0Day or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Young tackles the textuality of porn, and trendy gay porn in singular, mr big on. Through an interpretation of a range of contemporary French materials and the website Jest the Fag, Young argues that neither the arguments proselytized away anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘comfort’ that has also behove an orthodoxy can as a matter of course account in compensation the enactments of progenitive power and pre-eminence that these videos depict. Young notes in his article that the representation of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is far more tangled and a good less binaristic than antecedent accounts might take suggested with the aid the propinquity of the apparatus of the camera. Green’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed identity of the sexual acts represented in gay porn.