The starting go out of one's way to looking for this wander is naturally a revisiting of the biography, and I am charmed that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to specify his own reassessment of what has mature a foundational try for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As eternally, his humour and Gay0Day acuity is admirable (his history of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me go into hysterics every in good time I make review it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Decent: a Familiar Revisit’ that his bash at was past no means the first on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Unambiguous’ is nonetheless in my spectacle (and this is a inspection shared past innumerable others) an primarily important intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the lodge of sexual and cultural circumstances that lead to the publication of his tract in Jump Cut in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to prompt readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a methodical rubric instead of analysis and the uniquely apposite (and in diverse regards vatic) observation that gay porn does not eke out a living in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as chiefly of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.