The starting go out of one's way to for this route is to be sure a revisiting of the past, and I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to specify 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 always, his common sense and acuity is superior (his description of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me roll on the floor gay0day every experience I prepare read it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Pornography, Gay vs. Straight: a Familiar Revisit’ that his endeavour was by no means the first on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Straight’ is nonetheless in my observation (and this is a picture shared past many others) an primarily worthy intervention. In this new article, Waugh describes the lodge of social and cultural circumstances that lead to the pamphlet of his effort in Rise Clip in 1985. In precise this reappraisal usefully works to jog the memory readers of the innovations contained therein. These incorporate a systematic rubric instead of division and the notably apposite (and in uncountable regards prophetic) opinion that gay porn does not eke out a living in luxurious isolation and should be more meaningfully understood as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.