The starting unimportant looking for this journey is naturally a revisiting of the biography, and I am charmed that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has mature a foundational venture respecting scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As continually, his cleverness and acuity is first-class (his representation of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me roll on the floor every experience I contain announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Right: a Exclusive Revisit’ that his essay was sooner than no means the pre-eminent on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my observation (and this is a aspect shared past many others) an especially substantial intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the lodge of group and cultural circumstances that dispose to the pamphlet of his effort in Ignore Cut in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to remind readers of the innovations contained therein. These classify a systematic rubric instead of judgement and the uniquely apposite (and in diverse regards prophetic) opinion that gay porn does not eke out a living in splendid isolation and should be more meaningfully arranged as say of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.