# Anyone ever recognize someone from online porn? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111 "2003-02-10T15:12:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/41 "2003-02-11T03:34:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*Yeah, right. She’s perfect. If that doesn’t give you wood you must be some kind of ewenuch. \*\* Look, **Scylla** , no need to ram your point across like that. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mr.Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Hand)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/42 "2003-02-11T03:34:21Z")
If one were so inclined, one could purchase giant glossy posters of one of my high school girlfriends draped across a large fallen tree. Au naturale in both senses of the word. Six poses in all. She’s credited with a pseudonym very similar to her actual name. I felt terrible for her when she showed it to me. I mean, the pictures look very, very good, but they were not at all what she had in mind. One of those modeling portfolio scammers took her in and ripped her off, convincing her to sign away the rights to the photos. She ended up not taking legal action because she was too embarassed and didn’t want her parents to know. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/43 "2003-02-11T03:44:26Z")
No, I have yet to find anybody in online porn that was somebody I used to know…unfortunately. However, I have kept a special folder which has about 100 images of people who strongly resemble people I used to know…unfortunately, there’s always a little _something_ that disproves that it could actually be that person, even though a group of particlar photos really had me going for a couple of years, because all four girls looked just like four girls I went to school with who were friends with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/44 "2003-02-11T03:57:52Z")
This is about as close as I ever got, unfortunately: an ex-co-worker was a Sunshine Girl (pretty face on Page Three of local tabloid rag). ---
**Author:** ![Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermann_Cheruscan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/45 "2003-02-11T04:05:47Z")
This is weird, because I was thinking about posting something similar to the OP. About a week ago, I was checking out some porn online, and I came across a site that featured a woman whom I’m about 98% certain is an ex-girlfriend of mine. I mean, everything matched up, her tits, her ass, her face, her eyes. Everything but the hair color. The model had this kind of funky looking redish blond hair, like she had tried to lighten her hair, but did a half ass job. I mean, even her facial expressions were the same as I recall from my ex. And I remember when I was going out with her, my ex always was into exhibitionism and having sex outdoors. She even had some nude pictures of herself that were taken by a previous boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/46 "2003-02-11T04:16:58Z")
Yup. I met this guy on IRC a few years ago. He lived somewhere outside Toronto, and was coming to Montreal with some friends, so we hooked up, yadda yadda yadda … about a year later I came across some twinkie live sex cam site, and there he was. I recognized not only his face but his … er … unit. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/47 "2003-02-11T04:36:58Z")
A girl I went to college with is on one of the Girls Gone Wild boxes. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/48 "2003-02-11T04:52:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*Look, **Scylla** , no need to ram your point across like that. \*\* Woold you guys leave him alone? I’m sure he’s feeling sheepish enough at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/49 "2003-02-11T05:09:14Z")
I’ve seen so many strippers I went to High School with that it doesn’t even excite me anymore. As for online stuff, I’ve never seen any that are 100% confirmed but I’ve seen at least 10 or 12 that just about undeniable. A co-worker printed out one that looked exactly like another co-worker and posted it all over the walls at work a few years ago. She just kind of giggled when she smiled and never denied it. I don’t know if she giggled because it was her or because the thought of anyone thinking it was her seemed ridiculous to her (it was REALLY graphic.) But while we’re on the topic: Have you ever noticed that the one thing that would positively ID the person is never in the picture? If she has a tattoo on her left hip the picture will be from the right. If she has very distinct eyes they will be closed…etc? I hate that… ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/50 "2003-02-11T05:35:58Z")
Yes! Just last week! For some reason I found myself wondering whatever happened to an old schoolmate, whom I have not seen or heard from for lo-these-many-years. So I put his name into a search engine–it’s a rather unusual name–and up popped a picture of my old chum, dressed in leather, flogging the rosy-red bare buttocks of another man who was wearing only a dog collar. I would have laughed this off after the initial shock, if it had not been for the fact that I’d looked him up on my work computer. God knows what red flags this sent up! I had to go to my boss and explain to her why I was in “one of those sites” at work. She’s cool, and just laughed. But when I got home, I brought up the site again for further study, and yes, the man in the picture is definitely him. And to think that he does this under his real name! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/51 "2003-02-11T07:09:32Z")
Barb and I helped out a kid from our town and his girlfriend, with whom he was living, to get back to her parents’ place in Southern California back in the 1980s. After he broke up with her, he came back to our hometown. While he was there, he’d been approached and agreed to do some solo porn shots, which he had copies of, and showed us. One of them is apparently still on the net in the cruddy gay porn archives – at least he spotted it a few years ago and let me know he’d seen it (we kept in touch occasionally). If you are into gay porn and happen to see a picture of a slender boy in his late teens with dirty-blond curly hair naked and reclining across the back seat of a car and masturbating, with savannah grass or something similar visible through the car window behind his head, that dates from about 1986 and is a man I know. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/52 "2003-02-11T07:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*Yeah, right. She’s perfect. If that doesn’t give you wood you must be some kind of ewenuch. \*\* You guys let him alone. I’m sure he’s sheepish enough as it is. . . Tripler. It may be a baaaaaahd decisoion, but it is still his. . . ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/53 "2003-02-11T07:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\*You guys let him alone. I’m sure he’s sheepish enough as it is. . . > Tripler. > It may be a baaaaaahd decisoion, but it is still his. . . \*\* Ahem: SMACK SMACK SMACK WALLOP!!! Read up the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/54 "2003-02-11T07:40:40Z")
My roommate and his then GF did an amatuer porn tape that was part of ‘girl next door’ series. He had the tape as part of his extensive porn collection. Seeing him get it on with his GF was NOT hot, but somewhat disturbing. I couldn’t get over the feeling that I should not be watching it. ---
**Author:** ![coyasicanbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@coyasicanbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coyasicanbe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/55 "2003-02-11T17:44:13Z")
Never. But I WILL NOT give up on my research! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/56 "2003-02-11T21:20:34Z")
I was visiting a friend of mine once, and he showed me an amateur pron web site that had about 10 women on the home page. He asked me if I recognized anybody. Near the bottom I saw one who looked familiar. “Jesus, is that Amy?” His ex-wife. He said it wasn’t, because she didn’t have the same tattoo on her shoulder. He wound up telling her current husband about it, who’s a rock DJ. He mentioned it on his morning show. His cohosts went apeshit on the air when they saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/57 "2003-02-11T22:18:32Z")
I never thought I would see **Polycarp** discussing gay porn… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/58 "2003-02-11T22:39:33Z")
A gal I went to high school with – had a few classes with her, knew her well enough to say “hi!” in the hallway kinda thing … later turned out to be a Penthouse Pet of the Year. Just a couple of years after we graduated, actually. It wasn’t a big deal to me – I just thought, “I know the posessor of that butt!” ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111/59 "2003-02-11T22:43:05Z")
I googled an old school friend with a very unusual name last week and came up with one hit - a poledancer at a strip club. And I have to say, it doesn’t surprise me in the least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-recognize-someone-from-online-porn/154111.md?page=2)