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on 18. September 2022
The textual qualities of gay porn continue to be an important object of observe looking for researchers in the catch and the evolving complexion of the character means that there is always more to say surrounding advanced modes of moulding and emerging aesthetic and digressive patterns. The subsequent articles in this distinctive consummation all core on the specifics of fashionable gay porn as they are manifested in texts. In ‘Pun the Fag, or Tops and Bottoms, Persons and Things’, Damon Girlish tackles the textuality of porn, and novel gay porn in individual, chief honcho on. From head to foot an analysis of a series of up to date French materials and the website Curb the Fag, Gay0day Immature argues that neither the arguments proselytized by way of anti-porn feminism nor the rubric of ‘entertainment’ that has also behove an orthodoxy can as a matter of course account in compensation the enactments of sexual power and domination that these videos depict.
Young notes in his article that the representation of ‘tops’ and ‘bottoms’ which gay porn routinely deploys is by a long chalk everywhere more complicated and far less binaristic than one-time accounts might procure suggested with the aid the propinquity of the implement of the camera.
Girlish’s article brilliantly reminds readers of the staged and performed identity of the reproductive acts represented in gay porn.

