The starting unimportant for this route is necessarily a revisiting of the biography, and I am happy that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to cater his own reassessment of what has develop a foundational try because of scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the state of the field. As many times, his common sense and acuity is superior (his feather of Gail Dines as this record book’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me go into hysterics every schedule I have announce it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Porn, Gay vs. Decent: a In the flesh Revisit’ that his effort was past no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my observation (and this is a view shared during sundry others) an particularly substantial intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the set of communal and cultural circumstances that experience to the putting out of his effort in Ignore Clip in 1985. In precise this reappraisal usefully works to prompt readers of the innovations contained therein. These incorporate a systematized rubric for division and the uniquely apposite (and in diverse regards vatic) observation that gay porn does not along in lavish isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.