At a nevertheless more personal with it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD swotter, researching the iconography of gay porn, Gay0day funded via the British Arts and Humanities Inquire into Trustees and inspired by the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the crux at which my lettered craft fittingly began and a probing track was plotted that has led to the issuance, this year, of my own monograph, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural spectacle, and it first of all matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undressed in the pages of After Clear, it mattered in the 1980s sufficiently for Waugh to get a situation for its analysis, it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.