The starting point in behalf of this route is necessarily a revisiting of the days, and I am delighted that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provide his own reassessment of what has become a foundational dissertation for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As eternally, his humour and acuity is admirable (his feather of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me hoot a deride every time I prepare announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Pornography, Gay vs. Decent: a Familiar Revisit’ that his essay was by no means the first on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my spectacle (and this is a aspect shared past innumerable others) an especially worthy intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the introduce of communal and cultural circumstances that lead to the advertisement of his tract in Rise Settled in 1985. In precise this reappraisal usefully works to jog the memory readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a systematic rubric for division and the uncommonly apposite (and in uncountable regards prophetic) criticism that gay porn does not exist in luxurious isolation and should be more meaningfully agreed as say of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.