The starting point for this journey is surely a revisiting of the biography, and I am delighted that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to specify his own reassessment of what has appropriate for a foundational essay on scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the voice of the field. As continually, his humour and Gay0Day.Com acuity is first-class (his history of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me roll on the floor every experience I have announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Erotica, Gay vs. Decent: a Familiar Revisit’ that his bash at was sooner than no means the pre-eminent on the subject. ‘Men’s Erotica: Gay vs Straightforward’ is nonetheless in my observation (and this is a aspect shared past sundry others) an specially important intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the set of social and cultural circumstances that lead to the advertisement of his essay in Pounce on attack Settled in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to remind readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a systematic rubric for analysis and the especially apposite (and in multifarious regards fatidic) word that gay porn does not exist in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully arranged as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.