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Ramsay’s article acts as a contribution to an emergent literature on the diversified audiences with a view gay porn that includes Lucy Neville’s (2015) excellent essay also on female consumption of gay porn, Florian Voros’ (2015) equally fascinating breakdown of masculine porn viewers and the significant audience probing venture conducted nearby Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, and Martin Barker (2011), and which all accomplishment collectively to cool stereotypes and generalizations about porn audiences, who they are and how they be turned on to to porn materials.<br>At a still more particular level it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD admirer, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by way of the British Arts and Humanities Scrutinization Board and inspired nigh the put to good of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). 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