# How did stashes of porn end up in the woods in the 1970s and 1980s?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703 "2009-09-27T01:22:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703/41 "2009-10-14T23:33:15Z")

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Not only would a dad be unwilling to confront his kid about a missing porn mag, he might also assume his wife tossed it, as would happen in our home. Touchy subject all around.

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**Author:** ![festiva76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e8cbc/32.png) [@festiva76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/festiva76)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703/42 "2009-10-15T00:46:01Z")

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I’ve done my share of helping teens find my old porn. When I dump a stack of old magazines (regular and porn), I make it a point to place it prominently on top of the stack of paper in the recycling bin at the landfill. Hopefully, some kid will experience the thrill of finding porn as I did when I was a teen. No feeling is as taboo and risque as that was to me at that age, so I figure I’ll pay it forward.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703/43 "2009-10-17T00:26:28Z")

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The Onion is addressing the issue of [dirty magazines vanishing from our woodlands.](http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/dirty_magazines_why_are_they)

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-stashes-of-porn-end-up-in-the-woods-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/511703/44 "2009-10-17T05:36:22Z")

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Ha. Happened to me. Found my first Playgirl, soaked with rain (at least, I hope it was rain) in a wooded area of a local municipal park when I was like 11.

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