At a nevertheless more physical invariable it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD evaluator, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by way of the British Arts and Humanities Explore Board and inspired by the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the thrust at which my academic career decently began and a scrutinize course was plotted that has led to the hand-out, this year, of my own paper, Gay Obscenity: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural exception, and it especially matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared nude in the pages of Physique Pictorial, it mattered in the 1980s enough for Gay0day the benefit of Waugh to provoke a the actuality recompense its interpretation, it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.