Introduction: Gay Porn Now

Stephen Maddison’s article ‘Comradeship of Cock? Gay Porn and the Entrepreneurial Voyeur’ takes up divers of the chronicle themes that Waugh has identified, and his intervention can be accepted both as a response to Waugh’s earlier effort as proficiently as his own sensible appraisal of 30 years of experiment with into gay porn. Maddison has yesterday written very much astutely far the erosion of a distinctive gay savoir faire and the attendant federal implications of gay assimilation. In this article he before you can turn around again draws our attention to David Halperin’s (2014) recently made prominence between a gay identity associated with capitalism, commodification and assimilation and a gay subjectivity that offers the likelihood of dissidence. Maddison engages critically with the earthy that many others have made about the centrality of porn to gay mores and interrogates this assertion including the lens of neoliberalism. In his article he looks at microblogging Tumblr sites that feature pornographic cheerful which he sees as acting as a position of a distinctively ‘gay’ and thereby consciously revolutionary gay culture.