@@ -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 intention of this distinctive issue of Porn Studies is to assess, 50 years after homosexuality was no longer convict and throughout 30 years since Waugh provided a disparaging framework to chat about gay porn, where the intellectual division of gay porn has arrived at and where it is heading. 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