The starting juncture looking for this journey is naturally a revisiting of the biography, and I am charmed that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to cater his own reassessment of what has mature a foundational essay for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As continually, his humour and acuity is splendid (his history of Gail Dines as this record book’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me roll on the floor every schedule I prepare review it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Porn, Gay vs. Decent: a Personal Revisit’ that his endeavour was past no means the opening on the subject. ‘Men’s Pornography: Gay vs Straightforward’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a view shared by numberless others) an specially worthy intervention. In this supplemental article, Waugh describes the introduce of group and cultural circumstances that dispose to the putting out of his essay in Ignore Settled in 1985. In exceptional this reappraisal usefully works to remind readers of the innovations contained therein. These classify a systematized rubric for division and the uncommonly apposite (and in diverse regards divinatory) opinion that gay porn does not along in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully understood as part of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.