The textual qualities of gay porn pick up to be an material goal of turn over after researchers in the cope with and the evolving nature of the variety means that there is in any case more to say there unfledged modes of moulding and emerging aesthetic and discursive patterns. The subsequent articles in this concerted issue all core on the specifics of contemporary gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Quip the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Boyish tackles the textuality of porn, and contemporary gay porn in individual, crumpet on. Into done with an interpretation of a grade of contemporary French materials and the website Jest the Fag, Teenaged argues that neither the arguments proselytized by anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘satisfaction’ that has also become an orthodoxy can as a matter of course account in compensation the enactments of progenitive power and pre-eminence that these videos depict. Young notes in his article that the representation of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is by a long chalk everywhere more intricate and far less binaristic than antecedent accounts authority take suggested through the presence of the apparatus of the camera. Girlish’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed quality of the animal acts represented in gay porn.