Introduction: Gay Porn Right Away

At a still more personal level it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD student, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by way of the British Arts and Humanities Explore Stay and Gay Porn inspired by the duty of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the point at which my scholastic career properly began and a probing flight path was plotted that has led to the hand-out, this year, of my own paper, Gay Filth: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural happening, and it uniquely matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared bare in the pages of Physique Clear, it mattered in the 1980s adequacy suitable Waugh to make a case to save its investigation, Gay0Day it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.