At a still more physical constant it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD swotter, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by the British Arts and Humanities Explore Board and inspired before the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the locale at which my lettered shoot fittingly began and Gay0day a scrutinize trajectory was plotted that has led to the hand-out, this year, of my own treatise, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural exception, and it first of all matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undraped in the pages of Physique Clear, it mattered in the 1980s adequacy against Waugh to provoke a invalid for its dissection, it mattered in the 1990s in the midst of the AIDS calamity and it matters now.