@@ -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>That we should keep off making assumptions almost either who audiences are or how audiences respond to filth has been a centre interest to representing this quarterly and the researchers that are associated with it. 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Ramsay’s article acts as a contribution to an emergent belles-lettres on the diverse audiences for gay porn that includes Lucy Neville’s (2015) excellent thesis also on female consumption of gay porn, Florian Voros’ (2015) equally fascinating inquiry of male porn viewers and the crucial audience research venture conducted through Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, and Martin Barker (2011), and which all control collectively to fly apart stereotypes and generalizations about porn audiences, who they are and how they relate to porn materials.<br><br>At a still more individual level it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD admirer, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded about the British Arts and Humanities Research Cabinet and inspired before the duty of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the thrust at which my lettered craft properly began and a scrutinize track was plotted that has led to the hand-out, this year, of my own paper, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural spectacle, and it especially matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared nude in the pages of Screen out Clear, it mattered in the 1980s enough against Waugh to urge a case to save its dissection, it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS calamity and it matters now.<br><br>A rumination of the performative is at the pump of Brandon Arroyo’s contribution ‘An Amplification of Being: Chris Crocker and the Attractive of a Transindividual Porn Lady’. The stars of gay porn participate in forever been objects of particular pull and have provoked endowment including Richard Dyer’s essays discussing 1980s monoliths such as Jeff Stryker or Ryan Darling and my own intervention in these debates in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond’s edited gleaning, Framing Celebrity (Mercer 2006). In his article Arroyo analyzes the YouTube ‘stardom’ Chris Crocker, whose unanimity has transitioned at a compass of levels and includes his foray into gay porn. 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Issues local piracy and the outlawed uploading of copyrighted significance are of course urgent concerns for the porn manufacture; however, Tsika identifies a somewhat more individual interfere with of about in array to make observations to the ways in which ‘denotation’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s clarification be germane to here is the mechanism through which variously titillating or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their unprecedented situation within resistance and curious cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in apt to call to mind that the get ready of appropriation and repackaging that takes place here reduces the governmental and cultural power of the singular provenance texts that are repurposed.<br>