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Porn matters as a cultural phenomenon, and it uniquely matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undraped in the pages of Screen out Pictorial, it mattered in the 1980s sufficiently for the benefit of Waugh to get a case recompense its interpretation, it mattered in the 1990s in the mid-point of the AIDS crisis and it matters now.<br><br>That we should avoid making assumptions almost either who audiences are or how audiences rejoin to erotica has been a gist apprehension pro this quarterly and the researchers that are associated with it. Exactly, another special consummation devoted to audiences and consumers of porn edited close to Sharif Mowlabocus and Rachel Wood in 2015 took this situation as a starting point. In the present specific issue, Customer Ramsay contributes ‘Gays in the Girls’ Stare: "He’s too Honourable Looking!"’, which considers female heterosexual audiences seeking gay porn. 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