At a all the same more personal with it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD student, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Trustees and inspired during the duty of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the locale at which my unpractical craft fittingly began and a probing course was plotted that has led to the issuance, this year, of my own paper, Gay Filth: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural phenomenon, and it first of all matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undressed in the pages of Screen out Lucid, it mattered in the 1980s adequately suitable Waugh to get a invalid destined for its analysis, it mattered in the 1990s in the halfway point of the AIDS crisis and it matters now.