At a yet more physical with it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD swotter, gay0day researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by the British Arts and Humanities Explore Stay and inspired by the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the thrust at which my lettered career fittingly began and a scrutinize flight path was plotted that has led to the issuance, this year, of my own disquisition, Gay Dirt: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural phenomenon, and it especially matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undraped in the pages of Screen out Clear, it mattered in the 1980s adequately for Waugh to get a invalid for its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the mid-point of the AIDS turning-point and it matters now.