At a all the same more personal level it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD admirer, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded about the British Arts and Humanities Explore Trustees and inspired by the earn a living of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the locale at which my unpractical rush fittingly began and a probing track was plotted that has led to the brochure, this year, gay0day of my own disquisition, Gay Obscenity: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural spectacle, and it first matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared nude in the pages of After Lucid, it mattered in the 1980s sufficiently against Waugh to make a the actuality to save its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the mid-point of the AIDS crisis and it matters now.