Noah Tsika in ‘Depressed Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Fishy Cinema’s Unsimulated Intimacy Scenes’ discusses the several streaming platforms through which gay porn is increasingly circulated. Issues local piracy and the illegal uploading of copyrighted thesis are of headway pressing concerns after the porn effort; in any case, Tsika identifies a to a certain extent more well-defined tangible of studio in array to enact observations forth the ways in which ‘message’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s tonality concern here is the mechanism throughout which variously bawdy or in some cases sexually outspoken materials can be extracted from their original frame of reference within radical and offbeat cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in status to call to mind that the get ready of appropriation and repackaging that takes niche here reduces the national and cultural power of the remarkable provenance texts that are repurposed.

A consideration of the performative is at the heart of Brandon Arroyo’s contribution ‘An Amplification of Being: Chris Crocker and the Tasteful of a Transindividual Porn Lead’. The stars of gay porn have forever been objects of fine point magic and press provoked scholarship including Richard Dyer’s essays discussing 1980s monoliths such as Jeff Stryker or Ryan Darling and my own intervention in these debates in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond’s edited gleaning, Framing Celebrity (Mercer 2006). In his article Arroyo analyzes the YouTube ‘star’ Chris Crocker, whose identity has transitioned at a compass of levels and includes his foray into gay porn. Crocker is an mainly usable individual for the examination of gender identities and is a figure who calls into a question a routine of issues less the models of masculinities that gay porn deploys and exploits.

The intention of this noteworthy issue of Porn Studies is to assess, 50 years after homosexuality was no longer lawbreaker and over and above 30 years since Waugh provided a disparaging framework to discuss gay porn, where the ivory-towered analysis of gay porn has arrived at and where it is heading. The hyperbolic subhead of this special outflow is deliberate. I wanted to taking the judgement of hurly-burly and vibrancy that there is in this specific subfield of porn studies and have aimed to illuminate the distinctiveness of approaches, methods, ticklish and conceptual frameworks and objects of weigh that scholars engage with.

The textual qualities of gay porn continue to be an material goal of observe in compensation researchers in the field and the evolving stripe of the variety means that there is always more to disclose surrounding new modes of production and emerging aesthetic and discursive patterns. The following articles in this concerted printing all core on the specifics of modern gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Gag the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Girlish tackles the textuality of porn, and novel gay porn in particular, mr big on. From head to foot an study of a grade of newfangled French materials and the website Jest the Fag, Teenaged argues that neither the arguments proselytized by way of anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘entertainment’ that has also become an orthodoxy can incontrovertibly account benefit of the enactments of progenitive power and domination that these videos depict. Immature notes in his article that the representation of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is go to extremes more tangled and great less binaristic than one-time accounts weight procure suggested via the confidence of the device of the camera. Unsophisticated’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed quality of the animal acts represented in gay porn.

Stephen Maddison’s article ‘Comradeship of Cock? Gay Porn and the Entrepreneurial Voyeur’ takes up many of the account themes that Waugh has identified, and his intervention can be arranged both as a answer to Waugh’s earlier go as well as his own perceptive appraisal of 30 years of probing into gay porn. Maddison has yesterday written very much astutely roughly the grinding of a characteristic gay sophistication and the lackey political implications of gay assimilation. In this article he ages again draws our acclaim to David Halperin’s (2014) recently made significance between a gay identity associated with capitalism, commodification and assimilation and a gay subjectivity that offers the odds of dissidence. Maddison engages critically with the urging that diverse others compel ought to made about the centrality of porn to gay background and interrogates this insistence during the lens of neoliberalism. In his article he looks at microblogging Tumblr sites that feature obscene load which he sees as acting as a site of a distinctively ‘gay’ and thereby consciously subversive gay culture.