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.
Maybe it’s a subject that I have personal experience with and understand the consequences and signs of addiction.
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. For some reason, that company says that their quarters can’t hold a MicroSD, but somebody can manage it. If you can live with only 64 GB of porn, you’d be good to go.
As someone else has pointed out, there is always the internet when you get there.
A ‘sign of addiction’ is having porn on ones personal computer?
ETA: I have beer in my fridge. Help, I’m automatically an alcoholic.
Just stick it all in a folder under an innocuous name like “Not Porn”.
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.
No damn kidding:
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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”.
Really Americanization no more pleases the natives than any other 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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?
No he can’t…having porn on one’s computer is prima facie evidence of porn addiction.
Haven’t you been paying attention?
They say you have to hit rock bottom…