@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ -The purpose of this exceptional issue of Porn Studies is to assess, 50 years after homosexuality was no longer convict and over 30 years since Waugh provided a crucial framework to deliberate over gay porn, where the ivory-towered analysis of gay porn has arrived at and where it is heading. The hyperbolic subhead of this unconventional issue is deliberate. I wanted to taking the have a hunch of hurly-burly and Gay0Day vibrancy that there is in this well-defined subfield of porn studies and be struck by aimed to illuminate the diversity of approaches, methods, deprecating and conceptual frameworks and objects of cram that scholars for with. +<br>Stephen Maddison’s article ‘Comradeship of Cock? Gay Porn and the Entrepreneurial Voyeur’ takes up multitudinous of the narrative themes that Waugh has identified, and his intervention can be accepted both as a answer to Waugh’s earlier essay as well as his own quick appraisal of 30 years of experiment with into gay porn. 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