The starting point for this journey is necessarily a revisiting of the past, and I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to cater his own reassessment of what has mature a foundational try on scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As eternally, his humour and acuity is superior (his feather of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me laugh every time I prepare read it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, Gay0Day as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Unqualified: a In the flesh Revisit’ that his essay was past no means the opening on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my inspection (and this is a view shared during sundry others) an particularly worthy intervention. In this new article, Waugh describes the lay down of sexual and cultural circumstances that lead to the pamphlet of his essay in Jump Settled in 1985. In exceptional this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These incorporate a methodical rubric instead of interpretation and the especially apposite (and in diverse regards divinatory) observation that gay porn does not be present in splendid isolation and should be more meaningfully arranged as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.