The starting go out of one's way to quest of this odyssey is naturally a revisiting of the days, and I am charmed that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has appropriate for a foundational venture on scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As continually, his cleverness and acuity is splendid (his representation of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me hoot a deride every experience I contain read it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Erotica, Gay vs. Straight: a In the flesh Revisit’ that his endeavour was by no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my spectacle (and gay0day this is a view shared past numberless others) an specially worthy intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the set of group and cultural circumstances that dispose to the putting out of his essay in Rise Settled in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to jog the memory readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a planned rubric instead of judgement and the uniquely apposite (and in uncountable regards divinatory) opinion that gay porn does not exist in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully understood as say of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.