# Giving away old porno **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904 "2008-03-03T03:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/21 "2008-03-04T02:37:04Z")
I live in Austin, TX if you want to contact me. I mostly want to avoid carrying it. As I said, it weighs a ton, and I have redtube. The ammo is mostly .30-06 and 20 gauge. I am also not willing to destroy it. Thanks, Rob ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/22 "2008-03-04T02:54:02Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] Donate the porn to your local library or just drop it off at the nearest rectory; build a fire in your back yard and toss the ammo in. Or build a fire and toss the ammo and porn in. Or just leave it all behind when you move. [/QUOTE] Gives new meaning to ‘shooting off a load.’ ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/23 "2008-03-04T13:59:28Z")
A few years ago I was depositing recycling at a local recycling center, someone and deposited a large stash of porn in the paper recycling container. The design of the container prevent anyone from dumpster diving to retrieve any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/24 "2008-03-04T14:21:51Z")
[QUOTE=racer72] A few years ago I was depositing recycling at a local recycling center, someone and deposited a large stash of porn in the paper recycling container. The design of the container prevent anyone from dumpster diving to retrieve any of it. [/QUOTE] I’ve recycled pr0n before. I would either do that or just leave the box somewhere random - preferably someplace funny. Church steps, funeral parlor, Home Depot…whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/25 "2008-03-05T03:08:49Z")
[QUOTE=sweeteviljesus] I live in Austin, TX if you want to contact me. I mostly want to avoid carrying it. As I said, it weighs a ton, and I have redtube. The ammo is mostly .30-06 and 20 gauge. I am also not willing to destroy it. Thanks, Rob [/QUOTE] The porn probably will have to be tossed… used porn is kinda squicky. But even if there isn’t a Doper nearby who wants the ammo, I’m sure a Craigs Listing for ‘Free Shotgun Shells: You Pick Up!’ will get it out of your hair pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/26 "2008-03-05T03:13:54Z")
I was under the impression that craigslist wouldn’t let you put cool stuff like porn and ammo up. I guess you could trust to luck and hope that someone picked up your stuff before the post got yanked, but I would like the stuff to go to a good home and I don’t want to carry it. I am also careful with my porn, so you can feel safe touching it. Rob ---
**Author:** ![El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/27 "2008-03-05T03:54:02Z")
A friend of mine sent a huge box o’ porn to her friend’s unit serving in Iraq. See if anyone’s taking up donations for a care package. I don’t know about the ammo though. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/28 "2008-03-05T12:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Take it to the nearest pawnshop 😃 [/QUOTE] You laugh, but this is what I did when I moved several years back. First I hit the local used book shop to get rid of books I had no use for in exchange for a few yen. While the clerk was inspecting the books, I asked if they’d take the skin amgs I’d accumulated (Playboy-level stuff). Man, did that clerk’s eyes ever light up: I’d unwittingly hit on their main profit source. Got a better price for a dozen magazines than I did for twice as many books. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/29 "2008-03-05T12:38:01Z")
One word of advice, be very careful about dumping your porn, or you may end up like this guy: [http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/news/20080211p2g00m0dm001000c.html](http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/news/20080211p2g00m0dm001000c.html) He was too embarrassed to give his porno to a used book/video store, and was afraid to throw it away locally for fear of being seen by the neighbors, so instead he ends up plastered across the national news as the pervert litterbug. (Note: I realize the Mainichi’s Waiwai page is rightfully known as a gossip mill, but this has actually been in the mainstream news here for a while. The linked article just provides a decent summary.) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/30 "2008-03-05T13:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=El Perro Fumando] A friend of mine sent a huge box o’ porn to her friend’s unit serving in Iraq. See if anyone’s taking up donations for a care package. I don’t know about the ammo though. . . [/QUOTE] Just wanted to mention that porn is verboten in Iraq. Please don’t send it unless you know what you’re doing, and probably not even then. And they have their own ammo, probably don’t need yours. ETA-what’s this thing about abandoned porn left in the woods? It really happens that often? Or used to? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/31 "2008-03-05T14:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] ETA-what’s this thing about abandoned porn left in the woods? It really happens that often? Or used to? [/QUOTE] As a young deviant, I found porn in the woods on at least 2 occasions. Sadly to my youthful self, one of them turned out to be, unknown to me at the time, a magazine devoted to stories of “water sports”. For years I thought that was a normal part of the vanilla act. Fortunately for me, my first few girlfriends and my bedding, I figured it out before it became an issue. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/32 "2008-03-05T14:45:05Z")
Don’t know what to tell you about the ammo, but why don’t you just leave the porno behind? Do you have a crawl space or attic or cellar? Just wedge the box in there and leave it. The new tenants (or the tenants after that) will find it and either be delighted or horrified. Either way it’s kind of fun to think about. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/33 "2008-03-05T14:46:59Z")
I don’t know why you’re so anxious to give stuff away that is basically the raw material for several potentially lucrative ventures, including: – **sej** ’s Lewd ‘n’ Really kind of Dangerous Origami Creations; – **sej** ’s Gun Range – We have the most interesting Paper Targets in town; –Carrot and Stick: **sej** ’s “double incentive” sperm collection clinic; – **sej** ’s boot camp for Constitutional lawyers: “If you can defend the first couple of amendments after a week with us, our porn and our loose ammo that we’re willing to give to anybody, you’re good to go!” And that’s not even considering all the possible theme restaurants. Although I have to say the “just leave it strewn around the forests and hills and plains of our great land” has a powerful, Johnny Pornoseed vibe to it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/34 "2008-03-05T20:44:11Z")
[QUOTE=sweeteviljesus] I live in Austin, TX if you want to contact me. [/QUOTE] How does one contact you, Rob? I’m in Austin and am interested in the, er, ammo. Yeah, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/35 "2008-03-06T03:51:00Z")
[QUOTE=sweeteviljesus] I live in Austin, TX if you want to contact me. I mostly want to avoid carrying it. As I said, it weighs a ton, and I have redtube. The ammo is mostly .30-06 and 20 gauge. I am also not willing to destroy it. Thanks, Rob [/QUOTE] I’ll be in Austin and would be glad to take the ammo off your hands. I’ll send you a PM with my contact info. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/36 "2008-03-06T08:30:08Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] I’ve recycled pr0n before. I would either do that or just leave the box somewhere random - preferably someplace funny. Church steps, funeral parlor, Home Depot…whatever. [/QUOTE] Back in my high school days, my best bud and I frequently used to stay out late in the city and take the train back at 4 am. We sometimes purchased a Playgirl to read on the train. For the articles, of course. Anyway, one time we found we had already read that month’s issue, so we picked another one without inspecting it fully. Or even thinking about it, obviously, because how could we have not realized that a magazine called **Mandate** would…uh…not be aimed at the female audience? Of course we read it anyway. We discovered many interesting things. Like that in magazines other than Playgirl, men actually sported erections. And that some men get aroused by smelling their boss’s sweaty gym clothes. And that other men fantasize about being anally violated by their very large and muscular drill sergeants. Repeatedly. We would have just stashed the magazine in the drawer with the other magazines, but we realized that while we weren’t especially worried about my parents finding a few Playgirls hidden away, we _really_ didn’t to have to explain why we had gay porn. So we had to dispose of it before we got home. There was a convenient trash barrel at the train station, but there also was a convenient big white van. So we put the magazine under the windshield wiper of the van and went on our merry way. And to this day, almost 20 years later, I still get a giggle out wondering what the guy must have thought when he discovered a copy of Mandate under his windshield wiper. Epilogue: We never bought another copy of Playgirl after that. How can you go back to the farm after you’ve seen Paree? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/37 "2008-03-06T09:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] [How to get rid of a porn stash?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442247) [/QUOTE] I _thought_ I was suffering from a bad case of deja vu. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/38 "2008-03-06T20:50:03Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] Epilogue: We never bought another copy of Playgirl after that. How can you go back to the farm after you’ve seen Paree? [/QUOTE] Don’t you mean _gay_ Paree? ---
**Author:** ![sweeteviljesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/39 "2008-03-07T02:47:41Z")
If you want this stuff, send me a private message with your contact info. Rob ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904/40 "2008-03-07T03:39:05Z")
Freecycle? I’m sure that someone would love to come over and pick up those magazines for you. Now, whether it’s legal to give away ammo, I have no idea. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-away-old-porno/439904.md?page=3)