ABSTRACT
In the long-running debate on sexual representation, gay men's pornography has proved as controversial as its heterosexual counterpart, if only because the two have so often been equated. Yet for every attempt by someone like Andrea Dworkin 1 - or, more recently, her ally John Stoltenberg 2 — to assimilate gay porn to a genre of allegedly unremitting patriarchal oppression (phallocentric, male-supremacist, sadistic, homophobic) come replies defending its crucial affirmation of homosexual identity, fluid role-reversals, multiple eroticism, subversive humour and educational necessity in the age of AIDS.
