How much porn do you have?

[WhyNot]

However you want to quantify it: number of videos, inches of magazines (real inches, not "man inches"!) megabytes (terabytes? ;) )of storage...whatever.

And do you think it's more, less or about the same as other people?

Feel free to answer for "your friend" if you don't want to answer for yourself.

Me? Nothing at all that's specifically marketed as porn, although The Earth's Children series got me through adolescence. So I guess that's five books, 'though there's a lot of inventing and walking interspersed with the Good Bits. I suspect that's rather less than the average bear. Uh, person.




(Inspired by this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442247&page=1&pp=50), where several people mention multiple shopping bags full of porn. I found that rather shocking, and now think I might be a bit naive about the whole thing.)

[tdn]

Three magazines, three DVDs, and I never look at any of them.

I won't answer how many gigabytes, but I did recently delete a bunch of stuff to make room for more.

[CalMeacham]

I don't have any porn.


I might have some erotica, though.

[brewha]

I got two years worth of Playboys from '00 -'01. I used to have a subscription, but there's better free porn online. I still can't bring myself to throw the mags out.

I probably have a couple gigs of porn on my computer. I always search for new stuff, but when I find something truely outstanding (which could mean many different things) I save it.

I think I'm pretty normal - judging by what I know of my friends' stashes.

[Paul in Qatar]

5.5 gigs

That is a lot of porn.

[Savannah]

I'd say more than eight CDs of computer files--everything from erotic stories, early erotic photography, both softcore and surprisingly not so soft! (I love the "French postcard" pictures; the women are so soft and curvy) Those, to fairly straightforward explicit pictures I've found online. The Colour Climax stuff from the late 1960s-1970s turns my crank--completely explicit, with pubic hair, and a kind of joyful celebration of sex. (I love the little "stories" that go along with the pictures.) Some MPEGS. Some kinky stuff I like that my husband isn't interested in.

That's on CDs. I have a folder on the computer at present, with, let's see... at least 150 MB.

I have a LOT of erotica in the form of books, at least a good-sized box. Best Women's Erotica, Mammoth compilations, and so on. Yep. Lots of books.

Three Andrew Blake DVDs.

In my defense, I write smut as a hobby, so research is essential!

I'm a 42 year old married female.

[Savannah]

Upon scrolling up and seeing Brewha's comment, I realised I also have a box of older Playboy magazines I bought from another messageboard acquaintance. I don't know why; I guess I just like naked pretty ladies.

Oh, and to answer the question, I feel I probably have a lot more porn/erotica than my contemporaries. But who knows? I only spill stuff like this on the internet, not in real life. :)

[Wee Bairn]

However much my standard Dell2400 holds. Tapes and what not I tossed when computer porn took off. I honestly think the only reason magazines still exist is because you can't take a computer in the bathroom.

[Uncommon Sense]

5.5 gigs

That is a lot of porn.
Bah, there's folks here with 30+ gigs of the stuff. We just had a thread on this a few weeks ago. Lots of people, IIRC, had lots of porn. :D
Not me, no sir. The wife found it once. Once.

[Beware of Doug]

Somewhere between too much and not enough.

[Omegaman]

None. I have a wife. Had some before we met but since we have been together she has been more than enough to fill my every need.

[WhyNot]

In my defense, I write smut as a hobby, so research is essential!

Wow, so you can, like, take a tax deduction for porn? I'm awed...and jealous. :p

So is there a real differential diagnosis for "porn" vs. "erotica", or is CalMeacham just being a wise ass?

[FourPaws]

However much my standard Dell2400 holds. Tapes and what not I tossed when computer porn took off. I honestly think the only reason magazines still exist is because you can't take a computer in the bathroom.

Uh, I don't know about all youse, but my laptop = portability (or potty-bility, if you prefer). I don;t watch a lot of porn in the john, but I have been know to watch movies on the laptop whilst soaking in the tub.

No to mention I can watch movies on my treo that I've d/l so I guess I could as easily drop pron onto that and watch it in the loo.

[FourPaws]

Oh, and as far as porn -- I have no DVD's, postcards, nor magazines. I have 2-3 movies on my thumbdrive and thats about it, but I d/l new stuff and delete the old.

I get enough so I really don't need or watch much porn. Much more fun to make your own.

[CalMeacham]

CalMeacham just being a wise ass?


Wise ass.

[Lionne]

Not one picture, magazine, book or video.

I just use my imagination.

[tdn]

Bah, there's folks here with 30+ gigs of the stuff. We just had a thread on this a few weeks ago. Lots of people, IIRC, had lots of porn. :D
Not me, no sir. The wife found it once. Once.
So now do you keep a laptop under the mattress?

Savannah you have 150MB of files? Hell, I have movies that big and bigger. I'm subscribed to one site where a 20-30 minute movie may reach up to 400MB. It's a kind of disturbing trend, as files that huge tend to take forever to download, and they don't tend to play well. They stall.

[Illuminatiprimus]

I've got nearly 30 DVDs and VHS tapes which I think is quite a lot. I now watch most of my porn online from www.aebn.net, especially now with the strong pound vs the dollar. I end up buying about 600 minutes per month on it.

I love porn.

[Cervaise]

Gigs and gigs and gigs and gigs. Couple of portable hard drives worth.

Very little physical. Some erotic comics (Serpieri and the like), but not much else.

[Illuminatiprimus]

Not one picture, magazine, book or video.

I just use my imagination.

I used to do that, it just doesn't cut it now (not when those so many thousands of movies out there to watch).

[Lionne]

I like porn, but I need someone to share it with. It's always been a 'together' enjoyment rather than a solitary one.

[Kalypso]

I have 2 GB if you include the homemade stuff. I'm really picky about what I keep when it comes to downloading, so that part is only about 10 movies and 100 pics.

[Fetchund]

None. We do have a couple of books that I would label as "erotica", not porn. (Actual stories, no pics, etc.)

[Dosipede]

Right now I have two files totalling about 700 MB. I was up to about 13 gigs when I deleted everything in one triumphant moment a couple of months back.

It was getting stale.

[lieu]

None. I'd buy the occasional Playboy when I was single but threw about half of them out when I married and the other half when we had a kid.

[romansperson]

I got nuthin,' unless you count that short vid of the singing penis from some Australian gay film festival that was going around the Internet a few years ago. I find it both hilarious and deeply disturbing.

[tremorviolet]

I have a few clips on the computer and a couple of real VHS tapes (somewhere, I haven't thought about those in forever) as far as "real" porn goes. I've got a couple of books of erotic photography which are risque but I don't consider porn.

However, I'm an avid collector of "yaoi" manga which are Japanese comics with male relationships. Some are fairly explicit. I probably have about a thousand tankoban (book compilations) and maybe a hundred magazines. I don't consider them porn but others might.

[Uncommon Sense]

So now do you keep a laptop under the mattress?


Heh, kinda.
YouprOn. They stores it, I watches it. Takes up zero space on the old HD.

[Snarky_Kong]

None. I have a wife. Had some before we met but since we have been together she has been more than enough to fill my every need.

Wife's in the room huh?


As for me, I'm in the library so I can't check at the moment. Under 10 gigs, probably like 5 or 6. Every once in a while I'll go download 7 or 8 videos at a time and since I have extra room on my hard drive, why delete them?

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Around 300 CDs and 150 DVDs, plus another 80GBs or so sitting on the computer. I'm fairly picky about my porn, so it's pretty much all speciality/fetish stuff. Watching two people having sex on a bed doesn't really do much for me.

[Hostile Dialect]

5.72 GB.

I honestly think the only reason magazines still exist is because you can't take a computer in the bathroom.

You mean you can't take your computer in the bathroom!

[Telperien]

One story and three extended scenes I wrote myself, two short clips, about a dozen pictures, and one eight-minute video which for some reason is as funny as it is arousing. (probably all the spitting) I thought about making a plea for porn from friends; I did that before for music and ended up with some good stuff.

[corkboard]

About a dozen downloaded clips that together probably don't exceed 500 Mb, but were too exceptional to pass up. Two rather raunchy dvd's I keep hidden, and two more mainstream ones my wife bought and we enjoy together. I've found that this 'internet' thingy, coupled with a broadband access, provides me with enough on demand access to nearly anything I want that it doesn't make sense to keep much on hand. So to speak.

Gone are the days of the boxes full of glossy mags and clunky VHS tapes. Ahh, technology.

[Sapo]

Nothing. Or a whole internet full of it for free. Either way you want to look at it.

I have never had the desire to look at anything even remotely pornographic twice. You saw it, you move on, there is always more of it coming through. Saving porn seems like saving air. If you ever need to break out the stash, you have bigger problems to worry about.


Oh, and to all the laptop in the toilet crowd: Ugh.

[Rysdad]

None. Not a bit. And after reading all these responses, I'm beginning to feel like I'm the pervert.

Uh, I guess I'll have to get going and buy some.

[Little Nemo]

Lots. Although in my defense, I'll admit I'm a packrat and tend to keep things so my porn collection has accumulated over the decades. For example, I have a collection of Playboys that goes back into the fifties and is virtually complete from the seventies on. I probably have thirty or forty porn DVDs - but I have hundreds of non-porn DVDs.

[KneadToKnow]

Hard to say. Every time I go to count, I get ... um ... distracted.

[Wee Bairn]

5.72 GB.



You mean you can't take your computer in the bathroom!


True, no laptop, but even if I did have one, I'd be afraid I'd drop it in the tub/toilet.

[BMax]

How big is the internet? And how much of it is free porn?

I don't have to store any porn as long as I have an internet connection.

[KneadToKnow]

How big is the internet?Holds hands 1 meter apart.
And how much of it is free porn?Moves hands 2 cm closer together.

[Miller]

Tons of it on the hard drive. I've also got a bookcase full of pornographic comic books. I tossed most of the magazines and video tapes years back, aside from a few of the more exceptional ones.

[Hampshire]

Not one picture, magazine, book or video.

I just use my imagination.

Imagination?
That sure is a funny name you call your hand.

[dwc1970]

I have about a dozen CD-ROMs of JPGs, maybe half a dozen VHS tapes (no DVDs) and about two dozen magazines.

[Antinor01]

About a dozen magazines, I thought I only had 2 but came across about 10 more when packing to move. I think 5 VCR tapes and 1 DVD. I don't keep any porn on my computer.

[wheelie]

Couple of laserdiscs, couple of DVDs, about 13 Gb in my 'not porn' folder. I used to think I had a lot until I read this thread. 80 Gb? Damn.

[MeanJoe]

About 200 meg on the hard-drive and 1 DVD somewhere around here.

I tend to only look at the short, free-clips and save anything that is truly interesting. I probably LOOK at far more than 200 meg on a weekly basis.

Why are you looking at me that way? What? Stop it! Okay, on a daily basis.... *shame*

[Zebra]

About half a dozen Playboys.

I buy ones that I remember from my youth. It's kind of neat to see the image again even though it was burned into my brain.

I have 1 (playboy) DVD and 1 DVD that is only kind of porn. I have a few other DVDs that are not porn but I only bought them for erotic reasons. I never watch the complete movie, I just jump to my favorite scene.

I have no idea how much hard drive space is devoted to porn.

[Der Trihs]

About 69 gigs on the hard drive, 50-odd CDs, and some printed stuff. I'm a bit of a pack rat, especially with stuff that doesn't take up much physical space.

[Omegaman]

Wife's in the room huh?


As for me, I'm in the library so I can't check at the moment. Under 10 gigs, probably like 5 or 6. Every once in a while I'll go download 7 or 8 videos at a time and since I have extra room on my hard drive, why delete them?

I'm at work. I ain't lying dog. :cool: Even when I do the deed I think of her. We've been married quite a while.

[Leaffan]

None. I sure do my share of browsing, but my wife despises the stuff, so I browse and make sure I clean up after. (The files too.)

[Shakes]

None. I have a wife. Had some before we met but since we have been together she has been more than enough to fill my every need.


Shhh! Dammit Omegaman you're making the rest of us look bad.


I have about eight DVDs that have a collection of dust on the right now. But that's only because me and my computer are in a serious relationship. She gets very insecure when I look at other porn outlets.

[strokes the computer monitor] That's right baby. You're the only one for me.


If anybody needs me I'll be curled up in the fetal position crying myself to sleep over there in the corner.

[betenoir]

If you're talking about my harddrive (hehheh. I said hard drive) It's basically self made. I like self portraits. Up to and including my SO so now I've got his reciprocation. Porn, like charity, begins at home.

Which also includes the CDs he burned for me from hogtied .com (about as not for work safe as you can get). That and some books. But mostly I surf, I look, I get inspired....and I'll be in my bunk. I don't need to keep it.

[Stoid]

I believe at last count it was something in the general neighborhood of 100,000 photos altogether, and several hundred films. :D

[commasense]

So is there a real differential diagnosis for "porn" vs. "erotica"Of course: all you pervs use porn, while I only read erotica!

[Edward The Head]

I have two Playboys, one from 2000, and a newer one with Amanda Beard in it. Plus a couple of sex books with naughty pictures in it. Used to have a couple of videos, but lost them to the ex.

[Captain_C]

On my personal PC, none.

But if we are including the file server me and a few buddies set up, 2.7 Terrabytes.

But I assume some of those are repeats, it is too much to actually watch all of it.

[Hostile Dialect]

I have never had the desire to look at anything even remotely pornographic twice. You saw it, you move on, there is always more of it coming through. Saving porn seems like saving air. If you ever need to break out the stash, you have bigger problems to worry about.

Actually, I'm the same way. I get myself primed for the experience, so to speak, by downloading porn. Then when I can't take it anymore I watch some of my collection--but nowhere near as much as I've downloaded--and then delete that. My consumption just hasn't caught up to my collection, and it probably won't for a loooooong time.

Not to mention that if I download a full video on BitTorrent, I keep it around until my ratio is 1:1 and I'm bored of it. So that accounts for about 2 GB of it right now.

If you're talking about my harddrive (hehheh. I said hard drive) It's basically self made. I like self portraits. Up to and including my SO so now I've got his reciprocation. Porn, like charity, begins at home.

You're saying that you jill off primarily to pictures of yourself?

[Amblydoper]

500 gigs, give or take, plus two large boxes of mags in storage that I don't know how to get rid of... maybe I should check out that other thread...

[DudleyGarrett]

I have about 500GB, but I'm a porn packrat. 475GB could go and I wouldn't care in the least. Make that 450GB.

[WhyNot]

I don't think I've ever had a thread go past the first page on the first day. I love y'all, ya big ol' pervs! :D

[Wee Bairn]

Omegaman, you do know the catholic church has laxed its stance on masturbation don't you ;)

[Illuminatiprimus]

Omegaman, you do know the catholic church has laxed its stance on masturbation don't you ;)

Really? Well that just takes all the fun out of it!

[Maastricht]

About five erotic comics.

They're the first porn I actually liked and dared to buy for myself. I occasionally buy more now, but I throw out the ones I like least so I can still keep them in my nightstand drawer, hidden under the hot water bottle. Gotta build in some barriers in case the cleaning lady decides to open that drawer.

[Telperien]

You're saying that you jill off primarily to pictures of yourself?

I've been trying to process this myself. I mean, I have some pictures of myself, but they are not personally thrilling. They're for other people. Maybe betenoir is really hot, really narcissistic, or both. :D

[Qazzz]

I only have a couple yottabytes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte) of mostly rape/scat and electrostimulation play.

Nothin atypical.

[Omegaman]

Omegaman, you do know the catholic church has laxed its stance on masturbation don't you ;)

I just said I didn't have porn. If I said I didn't sharpen the stinger, then I would be lying. What Sapo said is true. Why save it, it's everywhere. Movies, cable television I run across it all the time, seeing it without really seeing it at all. That's kind of strange when you think about it. When I was a kid a porno mag was like treasure, one of the gang would get one, we would all meet up and ooh and ahhh, checking it out, talking about what we would do. Funny stuff. I spent half of my twentys in topless bars thinking I was living the life. I still see the beauty in other women but I don't lust after them. I have all I need in my wife. Hope that wasn't TMI.

[Telperien]

Omegaman, that was very sweet.

[Stringer]

When I was in HS and living at home I had 15-20 CDs full because I couldn't leave the stuff on the computer. Now that I'm an adult computer porn is totally disposable to me unless I find something I REALLY like. I probably have 10 gigs or so now, but only because I haven't cleaned it up in awhile.

[betenoir]

You're saying that you jill off primarily to pictures of yourself?


Hehhehheh. Very funny. No, I meant if you look on my computer, there's a buch of porn I made myself. Which I send to my online sutiors to drive them into a frenzy of unbridled lust (including my SO who I met online and resulted my driving him into a frenzy of unbridled lust in person, so it seems to work).

I jill of to their responses to my pictures. And to the pictures they (mostly my SO) send in response. (TMI...early in our online relationship said SO sent me a particulaly...vunerable pic of himself. It was the first time I told him I loved him :).)

[lieu]

Omegaman, you do know the catholic church has laxed its stance on masturbation don't you ;)Damn if "laxed its stance" doesn't sound like a euphamism for masturbation.

[bouv]

I have about 70-80 GB on two computers (i don't think my laptop has much, at most one or two gigs since it has a small 30 GB harddrive.) It's a mish mash of lots of different things, from just random people going to it, to big name porn stars, to celebrity sex tapes (yes, I have the Paris HIlton video, I watched it once, was like "eh, I've seen worse" and looked for more porn. I just never delete things), to lots of amateur/homemade pictures/videos (I'm willing to look at what I consider less attractive people if it looks like it's REAL people, ie, a girlfriend making a video of herself for her boyfriend. I guess in the end's the boyfriend is a douche for putting it online, but that's something you have to consider when you make a video of that nature.) Not a lot of what I would consider "fetish" stuff, that is to say, almost no BDSM, or big kink things like leather/pregnant (none of that, actually. Ick.)/feet (that either...double ick.)/whatever.

I also have one actual Playboy, the one with Vida Guerra in it.

[thirdname]

Now that I'm an adult computer porn is totally disposable to me unless I find something I REALLY like.
You're a computer? I've wondered what kind of pornography a computer would collect.

[Illuminatiprimus]

You're a computer? I've wondered what kind of pornography a computer would collect.

Probably technical diagrams and readouts of particularly erotic code.

[Beware of Doug]

Oh, and to all the laptop in the toilet crowd: Ugh.You do know you aren't actually supposed to put it in the toilet?

[Jophiel]

Three old "College Girls" collections by Playboy and two old VHS tapes of shoddy picture quality which only exist because I haven't tossed them yet. There's a handful of saved jpg's on my hard drive but not really much -- as has been said, if I want to look at boobs, it takes all of three seconds on the 'net to turn some up. There's no real purpose in my squirreling pictures away. Even the old photos on my hard drive are mainly from my 56k modem days when it actually took time to sift through the trash and find things worth looking at.

[control-z]

My pr0n size = however big a 50GB partition on a standard hard drive is.

I don't have anything physical (any more.)

[bouv]

My pr0n size = however big a 50GB partition on a standard hard drive is.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's 50 GB. :p

(And before anyone says it, yes I know the difference between the size we are told (which is in decimal) compared to the actual amount of space (which is in binary.))

[control-z]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's 50 GB. :p

(And before anyone says it, yes I know the difference between the size we are told (which is in decimal) compared to the actual amount of space (which is in binary.))


I was thinking more in inches of physical space on the hard drive. :cool:

[corkboard]

I was thinking more in inches of physical space on the hard drive. :cool:
Heh. 6, on average.

[Cyberhwk]

36.8 GB in the main folder. Another 27.6 GBs in my torrent folder (didn't think I had that many but I guess I have a couple of complete site rips).

...Carry the one...

64.4 GB

Honestly, it gets to be more of a hobby after a while. :p

[Hostile Dialect]

You're a computer? I've wondered what kind of pornography a computer would collect.

A computer would probably get pissed off at its user and say, "Hey, kid! Stop all the downloadin'!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9f1aiQAzJ4)

(Found this interesting tidbit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W03-bn3mJAM) as well. Try the above link first.)


You do know you aren't actually supposed to put it in the toilet?

Isn't "toilet" the UK/European word for "bathroom"? I'm pretty sure Sapo is originally from Italy.

[Ephemera]

Until last week, I had about 250 files at roughly 20 gigs on an external drive but since I never looked at it, I went ahead and deleted all of it. All I have left now are three DVDs (one of which is a bonus disc; the standalone was a gift from a Doper) and a cracked account on a rather large website.

[TokyoBayer]

I used to have a collection when I lived by myself but it didn't make sense to move it twice when the internet takes up so much less space in the closet.

[Chefguy]

Zip, zilch, nada. Unless you include an old dusty copy of "The Joy of Sex". My spouse provides all the fantasy I can handle.

[Sapo]

Originally Posted by Beware of Doug
You do know you aren't actually supposed to put it in the toilet?
Isn't "toilet" the UK/European word for "bathroom"? I'm pretty sure Sapo is originally from Italy.

:) Venezuela, actually (Italian ascendancy, though). Either way, the whole take the laptop to the restroom thing just reminds me of the Seinfiled episode where George takes a book to the restroom at a bookstore.

[Hostile Dialect]

:) Venezuela, actually (Italian ascendancy, though). Either way, the whole take the laptop to the restroom thing just reminds me of the Seinfiled episode where George takes a book to the restroom at a bookstore.

Ah, OK. Somehow I got the idea that you were Italian (from Italy) and had moved to Puerto Rico to be with Mrs. Sapo, where I suppose the truth was that you were Italian (from Venezuela) and had moved to Puerto Rico to be with Mrs. Sapo. Or am I messing that up too?

[Sapo]

Ah, OK. Somehow I got the idea that you were Italian (from Italy) and had moved to Puerto Rico to be with Mrs. Sapo, where I suppose the truth was that you were Italian (from Venezuela) and had moved to Puerto Rico to be with Mrs. Sapo. Or am I messing that up too?
You are missing about 17 other moves that I have done in between, but I haven't brought them up here, so you are correct. We moved to PR from the US, though. We were both living there when we met.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

None. It doesn't do anything for me. Husband has some on his computer and some movies. I have no idea of the amount.