The starting point quest of this wander 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 dissertation because of scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the state of the field. As many times, his humour and acuity is admirable (his feather of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me go into hysterics every time I make read it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Erotica, Gay vs. Right: a Familiar Revisit’ that his effort was by no means the first on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Unambiguous’ is nonetheless in my observation (and Gay0day.Com this is a picture shared past innumerable others) an particularly worthy intervention. In this supplemental article, Waugh describes the set of group and cultural circumstances that dispose to the publication of his effort in Rise Clip in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to remind readers of the innovations contained therein. These incorporate a methodical rubric in behalf of division and the uniquely apposite (and in multifarious regards divinatory) word that gay porn does not be present in luxurious isolation and should be more meaningfully agreed as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.