ABSTRACT
The main suggestions I’d like to make in this essay about gay male pornographic cinema are quite brief and simple. Broadly I’m going to argue that the narrative structure of gay porn 1 is analogous to aspects of the social construction of both male sexuality in general and gay male sexual practice in particular. But before getting on to that it seems necessary to say a few things by way of introduction. Pornography has recently become a Big Topic in left cultural work, 2 and what I’m going to say needs to be situated in relation to this.
