The article's importance has been widely recognized by scholars and historians. Cultural historian Paul Gorman — author of The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren — identified the Gallery International piece as a rarely seen but crucial document and preserved it in his personal archive. Gorman described it as one of several key articles published in sex magazines of the period that captured SEX at the height of its notoriety, alongside a contemporaneous feature in the British sex guide Forum. In 2022, the peer-reviewed academic journal Contemporary British History published "Whip in My Valise: British Punk and the Marquis de Sade, c. 1975-85," which used the photographs and interview from this very issue of Gallery International as its opening image and point of departure. That article descr.
