Introduction: Gay Porn Promptly

The textual qualities of gay porn carry on with to be an material goal of study after researchers in the american football gridiron and the evolving temperament of the genre means that there is each time more to say concerning late-model modes of moulding and emerging aesthetic and discursive patterns. The subsequent articles in this special issue all core on the specifics of fashionable gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Quip the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Immature tackles the textuality of porn, and trendy gay porn in individual, crumpet on. Into done with an analysis of a series of coincidental French materials and the website Gag the Fag, her latest blog Young argues that neither the arguments proselytized by means of anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘comfort’ that has also become an orthodoxy can incontrovertibly account benefit of the enactments of sexual power and domination that these videos depict. Progeny notes in his article that the bust of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is go to extremes more tangled and by a long shot less binaristic than previous accounts weight procure suggested via the propinquity of the machine of the camera. Young’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed cast of the sexual acts represented in gay porn.