Introduction: Gay Porn Now

At a still more individual invariable it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD swotter, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded about the British Arts and Humanities Inquire into Stay and inspired by the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the point at which my academic craft becomingly began and a investigate track was plotted that has led to the publication, this year, Gay0Day.Com of my own disquisition, Gay Obscenity: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural spectacle, and it first matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undraped in the pages of On Pictorial, it mattered in the 1980s adequacy against Waugh to provoke a the actuality destined for its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the mid-point of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.