The starting point for this journey is surely a revisiting of the biography, and I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to specify his own reassessment of what has mature a foundational essay respecting scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the voice of the field. As continually, his wit and acuity is superior (his description of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me go into hysterics every in good time I prepare read it), gay0Day as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Decent: a In the flesh Revisit’ that his essay was sooner than no means the first on the subject. ‘Men’s Erotica: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my inspection (and this is a picture shared past sundry others) an especially mighty intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the set of communal and cultural circumstances that lead to the advertisement of his effort in Rise Grieve in 1985. In exceptional this reappraisal usefully works to remind readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a systematized rubric for judgement and the uniquely apposite (and in many regards vatic) observation that gay porn does not exist in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as say of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.