# My Brother's Porn (TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384 "2005-03-20T03:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/21 "2005-03-21T02:25:10Z")
> [@easy e](#): > > Ah, another fan of “Coupling,” I presume? Aye. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/22 "2005-03-21T02:48:51Z")
Maybe it’s like Dorian grey. As long as he keep a picture of his Johnny nothing bad can happen to the real one. Or else he is an primitive tribe member and he did it to steal the soul of some dude’s penis to hold for ransom. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/23 "2005-03-21T02:51:36Z")
Oh my, I was a “Porn Buddy” and didn’t know it! Years ago, a good friend was leaving on a trip with her family. She had left the house key with another good friend who was her next-door neighbor and emergency contact, but she called me and asked that, in the event of her untimely demise on the highway, I dispose of certain homemade videotapes before her parents cleaned out the house. She had a fail-safe system in place: the friend with the key didn’t know the tapes existed or their secret location, I didn’t have a key and was only to be let in in the event of their death, and the tapes were Beta, not VHS, and her Beta player was broken (or so she claimed!) ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/24 "2005-03-21T03:14:57Z")
Okay, I’m totally hijacking this thread! **Mississippienne,** I tried to email you back, but it didn’t go through. I sent it to the email in your profile–I hope that works! If it does, maybe I’ll see you in New Orleans! Hope you have a great trip! And now, back to our regularly scheduled program. . . If my brother (either one, but especially my older brother) has porn, I really don’t want to know about it. But you know what’s even worse than that? I got spam the other day–the subject was “Mom Sluts,” and the email said, “Is your mom on our website?” :eek: I just want to put the smackdown on people who send out spam like that. And are there really very many people who would visit a website like that? Norman Bates, maybe, but I don’t know many people who would want to look at porn of their mothers. Ewwwwww. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/25 "2005-03-21T03:53:29Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Aye. 😉 Sorry, I was expecting “Shadaim”. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/26 "2005-03-21T04:47:11Z")
[QUOTE=TV time] I think it is a wise decision on his part. In case of a penis disfiguring accident, a plastic surgeon need not guess what his member looked like. He merely needs to send someone (probably you) to the safe and rush it to the hospital. > [@Tuckerfan](#): > > One time, after a friend of mine passed away, we were cleaning out his apartment, looking for some way to contact his family to let them know that he had died and we found his stack of porno mags.\*\*[public service announcement voice]Yes folks, that’s why Porn Pals are so important. You think having a designated person with your power of attorney is important? You think having some one designated to raise your children if something were to happen to you is important? But what if a loved one were to find your stash of porn? Call us - Porn Pals Are Us. Immediately, upon your death we rush to your house and remove your porn mags, dvds, videos and crocheted samplers. Isn’t your peace (piece?) of mind worth it? All this for the low monthly cost of…[/public service announcement voice] More important, if my ex becames wacky and wacks his tallywacker off, they will have a photo of it when the go looking for it!! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/27 "2005-03-21T12:55:30Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > But as I’m shoving back into the book, I discover one picture of a penis (!!!) just stuck in there randomly. As a former teenaged boy I can tell you that you never know when a penis will pop up. Also, one should never stick a penis into things randomly. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/28 "2005-03-21T13:34:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Why does my brother have a photo of a penis stashed in with his porn, I wonder? Is it his penis? Maybe it’s a **Picture of Dorian Gray** kinda thing. Worth trying out, I suppose. You never know. Oughtta save a bundle on Viagra/Levitra/Cialis/Rhino Horn if it works. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/29 "2005-03-21T15:23:44Z")
I cannot get over the idea of keeping porn in a safe. First off it is not readily available when you need it. I mean there could be a porn emergency or something. If Monty Hall offers you a hundred bucks for each copy of Big 'Uns you can produce in three minutes, you would be out of luck. Further, porn is simply not valuable. I presume I have several thousand porn images. If the EMP from a near-miss nuke fries my hard drive the collection could not be duplicated. On the other hand, I could make a similar collection in about a week with a DSL hookup. Odd behavior. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/30 "2005-03-21T15:40:40Z")
> [@Yamirskoonir](#): > > , a place where a man could close the doors, forget he had a wife and two children, and drink himself to oblivion every night… You have no idea how attractive an idea this is… ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/31 "2005-03-21T16:41:09Z")
> [@owlstretchingtime](#): > > You have no idea how attractive an idea this is… Ouch. . . . . . . . . . . . . Now I _really_ feel unloved…guess dad should have never married and had children if his porn and electronic toys were more fun. . . . . . . . . . . . . And I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/32 "2005-03-21T16:54:46Z")
> [@Yamirskoonir](#): > > The whole “collection” filled up **five** large trash bags. It also broke my mother’s heart, since she had never known about any of it, and he had been witholding sex from her for over two years as a way to “punish” and maintain control over her. Backfired, sucka! Although, the women’s lingerie were just further evidence of the affair that she already knew about. I’m not going to read this spoiler, so as not to spoil the plot of the upcoming movie… ;)… 😃 (Not to make light of the broken hearts involved :() Aaaaah hidden stashes of porn by presumably strait-laced family members. How well they tided me over through my early teenage years… Running into “honeymoon photos” from my friend’s dad’s collection I could have done without. _Shudder_ Maybe if his mom was more MILF-Y. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/33 "2005-03-21T17:06:05Z")
A friend of mine moved cross-country almost 4 years ago. The move was very sudden (a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11), and due to it being on a weekend, many of our mutual friends had plans and couldn’t, or wouldn’t, come to help. In fact, some suggested that said friend wasn’t really going to uproot his family and move, and it would be a wasted effort. Well, me and four other guys showed up and moved his stuff into trucks, vans, and the like, for about 10 hours. We finished and sent the family off. Later on, I’m talking to some of the ‘friends’ who didn’t show up. One of them practically fell into tears when I told him that our moving host had to throw out three full garbage cans of porn before he left. “All that sweet, sweet porn, wasted!” ---
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/34 "2005-03-21T17:39:58Z")
And now that I’m older and have porn “stashes” of my own (that my SO knows about and partakes in), I’ve realized that we’re all just horny adults and porn is good fun. However, I can’t say that if I had a penis, I would take pictures of it. It would be camera shy, just like me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/35 "2005-03-21T18:37:44Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > As a former teenaged boy I can tell you that you never know when a penis will pop up. Also, one should never stick a penis into things randomly. Words to live by. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maybe it’s a Picture of Dorian Gray kinda thing. [nitpick] Its **Portrait** [/nitpick] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/36 "2005-03-21T18:39:50Z")
I remember helping the friend of a roomate move. This guy was outspokenly prudish and disdainful of “Smut.” So it was especially sweet when we picked up the couch and there was a Playboy underneath. None of us said anything and it wasn’t there when we returned. But after that, he never really harped about smut ever again. I just remembered that the same roomate had another friend who worked in a porn shop. Quite the spectrum of associates. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/37 "2005-03-21T18:49:11Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > [nitpick] > Its **Portrait** > [/nitpick] > 😃 [Nope](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375751513/qid=1111432080/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-4185150-6662549?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/38 "2005-03-21T19:00:40Z")
> [@Aholibah](#): > > [Nope](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375751513/qid=1111432080/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-4185150-6662549?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). Hey! No fair fighting ignorance in a MPSIMS thread! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/39 "2005-03-21T19:02:50Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > I cannot get over the idea of keeping porn in a safe. > > First off it is not readily available when you need it. > \ > Further, porn is simply not valuable. > \ Course, if your aim is simply to keep it hidden, a safe certainly accomplishes that goal. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384/40 "2005-03-21T20:15:09Z")
> [@Yamirskoonir](#): > > Although, the women’s lingerie were just further evidence of the affair that she already knew about. Perhaps. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brothers-porn-tmi/295384.md?page=3)