"Ruszczycky analyzes gay pornography's penetration of popular culture and high culture since the 1960s, and its enduring impact on gay sexual fantasies and practices. Comprehensively unfolding–and bravely affirming–that impact's most unredeemable 'vulgar' expressions, Ruszczycky thoughtfully details sensational gay visions of leathermen, hot cops, AIDS-era 'sleazehounds, ' intergenerational sex, and 'boys' who become 'pigs.' Vulgar Genres is a major contribution to gay literary and social history, and to cultural studies in general."– "Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State University"