# Entering the UK With Porn on Computer **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201 "2017-03-28T05:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/21 "2017-03-28T18:28:42Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > It might be better for you if you just delete it all and give up your addiction. Nothing good comes from it. Wait a minute. There is no “addiction” involved here. My friend happens to have some porn on his computer, as I imagine many people do, and was mostly concerned about any that could be hiding all but forgotten in various nooks and crannies on his computer that he might not be able to easily find. I’m just a heck of a friend for asking about this, aren’t I? 😉 And thanks, **TokyoBayer**. That info is useful. Sorry I didn’t find it myself! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/22 "2017-03-28T18:47:24Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Wait a minute. There is no “addiction” involved here. My friend happens to have some porn on his computer, as I imagine many people do, and was mostly concerned about any that could be hiding all but forgotten in various nooks and crannies on his computer that he might not be able to easily find. I’m just a heck of a friend for asking about this, aren’t I? 😉 > > And thanks, **TokyoBayer**. That info is useful. Sorry I didn’t find it myself! The Jesus is strong with that one. Evangelicals believe viewing porn in any amount equates to addiction. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/23 "2017-03-28T19:00:30Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > The Jesus is strong with that one. > > Evangelicals believe viewing porn in any amount equates to addiction. Maybe it’s a subject that I have personal experience with and understand the consequences and signs of addiction. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/24 "2017-03-28T19:04:05Z")
This thread got me thinking–a MicroSD card should be small enough to fit into a fake coin. Surely somebody has had the bright idea to sell those. [Yep](http://www.spy-coins.com/). For some reason, that company says that their quarters can’t hold a MicroSD, but [somebody can manage it](https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1CY0N54812). If you can live with only 64 GB of porn, you’d be good to go. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/25 "2017-03-28T19:10:51Z")
As someone else has pointed out, there is always the internet when you get there. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/26 "2017-03-28T19:24:26Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Maybe it’s a subject that I have personal experience with and understand the consequences and signs of addiction. A ‘sign of addiction’ is having porn on ones personal computer? ETA: I have beer in my fridge. Help, I’m automatically an alcoholic. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/27 "2017-03-28T19:30:09Z")
Just stick it all in a folder under an innocuous name like “Not Porn”. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/28 "2017-03-28T20:00:17Z")
Better yet, call it “Don’t Look in This Folder”. Then they’ll be sure not to look. More seriously, you could store it in an encrypted folder. That’s a good precaution which covers a wide variety of possible situations where someone might unexpectedly come across your collection. A … friend of mine does that. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/29 "2017-03-28T20:40:48Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > The Jesus is strong with that one. > > Evangelicals believe viewing porn in any amount equates to addiction. No damn kidding: \* Used to be 16\* [age to appear in porn] _in Australia until some American evangelical Christians moved there and started screaming bloody murder about it. For a lot of countries, the basic answer is “U.S. imperialism”._ **[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/40e5le/eli5_why_is_it_that_the_age_a_person_can_legally/)** Really Americanization no more pleases the natives than any other imperialism. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/30 "2017-03-28T21:13:19Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > _Used to be 16_ [age to appear in porn] _in Australia until some American evangelical Christians moved there and started screaming bloody murder about it. For a lot of countries, the basic answer is “U.S. imperialism”._ I don’t know if any religious group had anything to do with stopping it, but I remember when I was in college in the early 1990s, there were places that sometimes "had imported issues of the British magazine Mayfair in the “behind the counter” magazine racks–and I specifically remembered it to have models as young as 16. And some googling [proves that my memory wasn’t faulty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair_%28magazine%29#Legal_issues). ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/31 "2017-03-28T21:23:41Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Better yet, call it “Don’t Look in This Folder”. Then they’ll be sure not to look. > > More seriously, you could store it in an encrypted folder. That’s a good precaution which covers a wide variety of possible situations where someone might unexpectedly come across your collection. A … friend of mine does that. Not a good idea either. Don’t know if they have a scanner software that finds encrypted folders, but should they happen to search and find the folder - then the dilemma is “refuse password, banned and sent home -possible warning to home country customs” or “open and see if they send me home or stick me in jail”. Don’t take questionable material through customs - is always the safest course. Nobody (in the first world) is going to object to Playboy or Penthouse level nudes, but anything more hard-core might be a problem; and note that many third-world countries specifically don’t have a tolerance for anything. Heck, even Japan seems to have that “pixilate anything explicit” mentality. I assume importing explicit stuff is a no-no. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/32 "2017-03-28T21:27:30Z")
If you’re worried about that scenario, it’s possible to set up an encrypted folder with two passwords, one of which decrypts the actual contents and the other decrypts some innocuous dummy contents. See [Deniable encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption). ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/33 "2017-03-28T21:27:43Z")
It wasn’t an issue for my “friend” last month when he travelled to London on business. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/34 "2017-03-28T21:30:43Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > It wasn’t an issue for my “friend” last month when he travelled to London on business. I just want to add quotes to all that to make it super mysterious… It wasn’t an “issue” for my “friend” last month when he travelled to “London” on “business”. There. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/35 "2017-03-28T21:37:52Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I just want to add quotes to all that to make it super mysterious… > > It wasn’t an “issue” for my “friend” last month when he travelled to “London” on “business”. > > There. 😃 To be clear, my “friend,” while American, entered the UK with “his” Irish passport which, I believe, might mean that “he” may have been subject to less scrutiny than if “he” had entered with “his” US passport. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/36 "2017-03-28T21:39:37Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > It wasn’t an “issue” for my “friend” last month when he travelled to “London” on “business”. Why does that immediately conjure up an image of your “friend” lurking around kiddies play areas with his telephoto lense? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/37 "2017-03-28T21:44:54Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Why does that immediately conjure up an image of your “friend” lurking around kiddies play areas with his telephoto lense? You’d have to ask “him”. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/38 "2017-03-28T21:50:49Z")
> [@md2000](#): > > **Don’t take questionable material through customs** - is always the safest course. Nobody (in the first world) is going to object to Playboy or Penthouse level nudes, but anything more hard-core might be a problem; and note that many third-world countries specifically don’t have a tolerance for anything. Heck, even Japan seems to have that “pixilate anything explicit” mentality. I assume importing explicit stuff is a no-no. snipped and bolding mine. FFS, the correct answer is this. In this age where everyone is going to be all up in any American’s shit just out of principle, because Trump, why would you screw around with this? We also know that laptops are under increased scrutiny because shit keeps blowing up (granted you’re probably not entering on one of the designated airlines - still). You can get more porn once you’re there or put it in a Cloud drive or whatever. Heck, you could even live without porn (the horror) for a month. They can take your computer, I believe, at least long enough for a thorough forensic examination. They can send you home. They can hold you for several hours. They can do all of those things. They could even add charges if they were feeling snarky. Why do it? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/39 "2017-03-28T21:54:42Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Heck, you could even live without porn (the horror) for a month. No he can’t…having porn on one’s computer is prima facie evidence of porn addiction. Haven’t you been paying attention? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/40 "2017-03-28T22:43:08Z")
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