At a nevertheless more physical level it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD admirer, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded via the British Arts and Humanities Explore Stay and inspired before the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the locale at which my unpractical career becomingly began and a investigate flight path was plotted that has led to the publication, this year, of my own treatise, Gay Obscenity: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural phenomenon, and it especially matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared nude in the pages of Screen out Pictorial, it mattered in the 1980s adequately against Waugh to get a case destined for its dissection, it mattered in the 1990s in the halfway point of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.