The objective of this exceptional outcome of Porn Studies is to assess, 50 years after homosexuality was no longer criminal and ended 30 years since Waugh provided a disparaging framework to chat about gay porn, where the intellectual analysis of gay porn has arrived at and where it is heading.
The hyperbolic title of this odd issue is deliberate.
I wanted to taking the sense of excitement and vibrancy that there is in this specific subfield of porn studies and have aimed to illuminate the distinctiveness of approaches, methods, depreciatory and conceptual frameworks and objects of study that scholars engage with.