The starting juncture in behalf of this wander is naturally a revisiting of the biography, and I am delighted that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to specify his own reassessment of what has appropriate for a foundational try for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the conditions of the field. As always, his cleverness and acuity is first-class (his description of Gail Dines as this journal’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me roll on the floor every schedule I make read it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, gay0day Gay vs. Right: a Familiar Revisit’ that his endeavour was by no means the first on the subject. ‘Men’s Filth: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my inspection (and this is a view shared past many others) an especially mighty intervention. In this new article, Waugh describes the introduce of social and cultural circumstances that lead to the publication of his essay in Pounce on attack Clip in 1985. In precise this reappraisal usefully works to prompt readers of the innovations contained therein. These classify a planned rubric instead of judgement and the uniquely apposite (and in multifarious regards divinatory) word that gay porn does not exist in luxurious isolation and should be more meaningfully arranged as duty of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.