The starting juncture in behalf of this wander is necessarily a revisiting of the last, and I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provender his own reassessment of what has become a foundational venture for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the conditions of the field. As eternally, Gay0Day.Com his common sense and acuity is splendid (his history of Gail Dines as this record book’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me roll on the floor every time I make review it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Porn, Gay vs. Decent: a Exclusive Revisit’ that his bash at was past no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Smut: Gay vs Unambiguous’ is nonetheless in my inspection (and this is a inspection shared by numberless others) an particularly mighty intervention. In this late article, Waugh describes the introduce of group and cultural circumstances that experience to the pamphlet of his essay in Ignore Cut in 1985. In precise this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These comprise a systematic rubric repayment for interpretation and the uniquely apposite (and in many regards vatic) criticism that gay porn does not exist in splendid isolation and should be more meaningfully understood as part of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.