# Porn for anal-retentives **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898 "2005-01-21T10:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/1 "2005-01-21T10:42:39Z")
This isn’t so much a product endorsement as a shameful confessional. I just downloaded [Delicious Library](http://www.delicious-monster.com/), a Mac OS X-only program that organizes your home library of DVDs, books, videogames, etc. It feels dirty how much I loved using this thing. If you’ve got an iSight (which I bought for some reason and haven’t had [much use for as of yet](http://www.spectrecollie.com/about.php)), you can use it to scan in the barcodes on your stuff. And after a few false starts, it actually works. And I ended up scanning in my whole DVD collection. And then a few books I had lying around. And some games. And then some more. And by that point I was just looking around the apartment for more stuff with bar codes on it to scan in. And it would accept them, and look up the information on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com), and a computer voice would read back the name of the thing to me, and it would include a little picture of it on a little picture of a shelf. And it’ll sync it up with my iPod so I can tell when I’m out a store if I’ve already bought that Terry Pratchett book or have yet to get it. And just like real porn, I kept alternating between feelings of excitement and then intense shame for enjoying it. I mean, it’s _normal_ to want to have all your stuff organized in alphabetical order and filed away on a computer, right? There’s nothing _wrong_ with it. It’s only for insurance purposes, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Calabi\_Yau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@Calabi\_Yau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calabi_Yau)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/2 "2005-01-21T11:38:51Z")
Had me going with the **porn** and the **anal** there for a minute. But the software does look rather good. Wait, I have a powerbook and an isight - I think it´s playtime! – ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/3 "2005-01-21T11:47:00Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > And just like real porn, I kept alternating between feelings of excitement and then intense shame for enjoying it. > > I mean, it’s _normal_ to want to have all your stuff organized in alphabetical order and filed away on a computer, right? There’s nothing _wrong_ with it. It’s only for insurance purposes, of course. Yanno, this is almost enough to get me wanting to get a Mac. 😃 And, certainly it is normal to try alphabetizing everything you own. (Chairs should be stored next to condoms, right?) Nothing to be ashamed of. Enjoy yourself, without guilt! BTW, did you get my last email? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/4 "2005-01-21T11:48:05Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > And just like real porn, I kept alternating between feelings of excitement and then intense shame for enjoying it. > > I mean, it’s _normal_ to want to have all your stuff organized in alphabetical order and filed away on a computer, right? There’s nothing _wrong_ with it. It’s only for insurance purposes, of course. Yanno, this is almost enough to get me wanting to get a Mac. 😃 And, certainly it is normal to try alphabetizing everything you own. (Chairs should be stored next to condoms, right?) Nothing to be ashamed of. Enjoy yourself, without guilt! BTW, did you get my last email? ---
**Author:** ![hildea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ebca7d/32.png) [@hildea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hildea)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/5 "2005-01-21T11:53:46Z")
I’m a straight woman, and I find watching a gay guy discussing - Oops, wrong thread 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/6 "2005-01-21T12:22:12Z")
Wow. That software is incredibly HOT! I need it on my hard drive RIGHT NOW BIG BOY!!! _ahem_ But day-umn that sounds neat! There’s that organizational fetish showing again. I also have a scary thing for office supplies. Unfortunately, I swing for the other team (PC), so I guess I’ll just have to watch and be jealous. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/7 "2005-01-21T13:34:43Z")
I’m just glad it wasn’t naked pictures of [Phil Hartman](http://snl.jt.org/detail.php?i=3772). ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/8 "2005-01-21T14:26:43Z")
OMG, someone tell me there’s something like this for Windows, please. I would kill and eat a maggot-infested gangrenous plague rat for the ability to scan all the barcodes on my books and get them into a database. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/9 "2005-01-21T14:30:10Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > OMG, someone tell me there’s something like this for Windows, please. I would kill and eat a maggot-infested gangrenous plague rat for the ability to scan all the barcodes on my books and get them into a database. Ditto. Well, maybe minus the maggots, but you get the idea. I have way too many books and DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/10 "2005-01-21T15:04:01Z")
And to think I had to write my own database to sort my DVDs. ☹ And _I_ don’t have the feature of barcode scanning. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/11 "2005-01-21T20:50:32Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Wow. That software is incredibly HOT! I need it on my hard drive RIGHT NOW BIG BOY!!! Mmm… your drive is so HARD! It’s so big, too! What is, it, like. 250 GB? YES, that’s it! Put it in my empty bay! Let me feel your data transferring! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/12 "2005-01-21T21:35:01Z")
> [@hildea](#): > > I’m a straight woman, and I find watching a gay guy discussing - > > Oops, wrong thread 😃 Okay, now that cracked me up. (Although in my defense, that was about the least gay post I’ve made in months). If it helps turn you on or anything, I did scan in a couple of David Sedaris books… ---
**Author:** ![Strangelove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/13 "2005-01-22T22:42:13Z")
Oh please tell me there is something out there for a PC fetish? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/14 "2005-02-27T23:17:05Z")
Just an update for anybody who did get that library software. Someone has finally written an app that makes it somewhat useful; it’s called [Delicious Exporter](http://www.agencesi.com/DeliciousExporter/) and generates HTML files from your library data. It’s still in beta, so you’re stuck with their layout and preset output and everything, but it’s pretty slick. Hopefully it’ll be integrated with the program itself at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/15 "2005-02-27T23:20:24Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Yanno, this is almost enough to get me wanting to get a Mac. 😃 Sorry, I’m spoken for. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/16 "2005-02-27T23:25:40Z")
This sounds very tempting. I could sure use something like this, but I’d have to get an iSight. And people say that there isn’t any great software for the Mac . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/17 "2005-02-27T23:41:01Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > This sounds very tempting. I could sure use something like this, but I’d have to get an iSight. Well, using an iSight as a scanner is the flashiest part of the whole thing, but of course it’s not necessary. You can enter the UPC or ISBN codes by hand and it’ll find them just as well. To be honest, in practice the iSight barcode scanning is pretty slow and flaky. It was neat at first, but I think I ended up typing in almost as many codes as scanning them. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/18 "2005-02-28T00:47:19Z")
Just like porn, this will get you off for a while. Then you’ll need something stronger. You’ll be organizing the food in your pantry. The pets will have bar codes on them. You’ll be instatiable. Then, your family will stage an intervention and you locked up. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/19 "2005-02-28T05:45:36Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Mmm… your drive is so HARD! It’s so big, too! What is, it, like. 250 GB? YES, that’s it! Put it in my empty bay! Let me feel your data transferring! Sorry, all I have is a 1.44MB floppy at the moment… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898/20 "2005-02-28T06:46:29Z")
Pssh. Amateurs. I was just thinking about doing this to my comic books. Manually. In an Access database. In fact, I think that will be my project for next weekend. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-for-anal-retentives/285898.md?page=2)