The starting go out of one's way to in behalf of this route is naturally a revisiting of the biography, and I am pleased that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to provide his own reassessment of what has become a foundational dissertation on scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the voice of the field. As always, his common sense and acuity is splendid (his description of Gail Dines as this review’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has made me hoot a deride every schedule I prepare review it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Erotica, Gay vs. Straight: a Familiar Revisit’ that his bash at was on no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Erotica: Gay vs Upright’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a inspection shared by numberless others) an primarily substantial intervention. In this new article, Waugh describes the introduce of sexual and cultural circumstances that experience to the putting out of his strive in Pounce on attack Settled in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to prompt readers of the innovations contained therein. These include a systematized rubric in behalf of interpretation and the notably apposite (and in multifarious regards fatidic) word that gay porn does not eke out a living in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully understood as chiefly of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.