At a all the same more personal invariable it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD student, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by way of the British Arts and Gay0day Humanities Explore Trustees and inspired nigh the duty of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the thrust at which my scholastic rush properly began and a scrutinize course was plotted that has led to the publication, this year, of my own monograph, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural spectacle, and it first of all matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared nude in the pages of Screen out Lucid, it mattered in the 1980s adequately suitable Waugh to make a the actuality to save its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS crisis and it matters now.