I don't mean to imply that I believe in the myth of objectivity, that I start off utterly neutral. Discussion about porn tends to start off by being either for or against all porn and to be caught up in equally dubious libertarian or puritanical ideas. I want some definition that is as broadly descriptive as possible. Pornography has recently become a Big Topic in left cultural work, and what I'm going to say needs to be situated in relation to this.įirst, a definition - a working definition, the one I'm going to be working with here, rather than a statement of the correct definition of pornography. But before getting on to that, it seems necessary to say a few things by way of introduction.
Broadly I'm going to argue that the narrative structure of gay porn is analogous to aspects of the social construction of both male sexuality in general and gay male sexual practice in particular. The main suggestions I'd like to make in this article about gay male pornographic cinema are quite brief and simple. Male Gay Porn: Coming to Terms by Richard Dyer JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1985, 2005
