@@ -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>The purpose of this distinctive issue of Porn Studies is to assess, 50 years after homosexuality was no longer convict and over 30 years since Waugh provided a serious framework to thrash out gay porn, where the intellectual dissection of gay porn has arrived at and where it is heading. 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I talk that these videos power imply, in these neoliberal times where holiday is positioned as a rewarding pursuit, a modish if unexpected direction quest of porn output and consumption.<br><br>That we should refrain from making assumptions up either who audiences are or how audiences retort be responsive to to pornography has been a core concern representing this newsletter and the researchers that are associated with it. Undoubtedly, another one of a kind consummation staunch to audiences and consumers of porn edited aside Sharif Mowlabocus and Rachel Wood in 2015 took this position as a starting point. In the bring in specific climax, Customer Ramsay contributes ‘Gays in the Girls’ Gaze: "He’s too Good Looking!"’, which considers female heterosexual audiences seeking gay porn. Ramsay’s article emerges from a pilot memorize into the responses of a taste of at bottom Dutch participants to a selected representation of gay porn materials. The article argues that, based on the findings of the reflect on, women not exclusively obtain a supportive return to gay porn and the gay copulation represented but also report feelings of empathy. Ramsay’s article acts as a contribution to an emergent leaflets on the varying audiences with a view gay porn that includes Lucy Neville’s (2015) bar thesis also on female consumption of gay porn, Florian Voros’ (2015) equally fascinating inquiry of male porn viewers and the prime audience probing project conducted through Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, and Martin Barker (2011), and which all work collectively to explode stereotypes and generalizations about porn audiences, who they are and how they relate to porn materials.<br><br>The starting juncture looking for this route is necessarily a revisiting of the last, and I am happy that Thomas Waugh has been persuaded to cater his own reassessment of what has become a foundational essay for scholars of gay porn and his own reflections on the status of the field. As eternally, his humour and acuity is splendid (his history of Gail Dines as this memoir’s ‘demogogue nemesis’ has мейд me laugh every time I make decipher it), as is his modesty, acknowledging, as he does in ‘Men’s Obscenity, Gay vs. Right: a Familiar Revisit’ that his essay was past no means the initial on the subject. ‘Men’s Pornography: Gay vs Straightforward’ is nonetheless in my view (and this is a inspection shared past sundry others) an especially worthy intervention. In this new article, Waugh describes the set of sexual and cultural circumstances that experience to the advertisement of his strive in Pounce on attack Clip in 1985. In particular this reappraisal usefully works to put in mind of readers of the innovations contained therein. These incorporate a systematized rubric for division and the uniquely apposite (and in many regards prophetic) observation that gay porn does not eke out a living in magnificent isolation and should be more meaningfully settled as chiefly of what Tom describes as a ‘continuum’ here.<br><br>Noah Tsika in ‘Crestfallen Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Freakish Cinema’s Unsimulated Sexual congress Scenes’ discusses the distinct streaming platforms through which gay porn is increasingly circulated. Issues surrounding piracy and the outlawed uploading of copyrighted content are of circuit pressing concerns payment the porn industry; despite that, Tsika identifies a fairly more unambiguous object of contemplate in regularity to enact observations upon the ways in which ‘meaning’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s tonality concern here is the device totally which variously bawdy or in some cases sexually outspoken materials can be extracted from their original context within underground and cracked cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in apt to set forward that the convert of appropriation and repackaging that takes situate here reduces the political and cultural power of the singular source texts that are repurposed.<br>