Introduction: Gay Porn Right Away

Noah Tsika in ‘Depressed Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Freakish Cinema’s Unsimulated Sexual congress Scenes’ discusses the sundry streaming platforms through which gay porn is increasingly circulated. Issues adjacent piracy and the prohibited uploading of copyrighted satisfied are of headway pressing concerns for the porn labour; anyway, Tsika identifies a to a certain extent more individual intent of studio in order to enact observations about the ways in which ‘gist’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s mood concern here is the mechanism through which variously erotic or in some cases sexually explicit materials can be extracted from their original frame of reference within resistance and cracked cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in status to proffer that the convert of appropriation and repackaging that takes place here reduces the national and cultural power of the singular source texts that are repurposed.