# Vatican Porn **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 4, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-porn/39719 "2000-11-04T18:51:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pezwookiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pezwookiee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezwookiee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-porn/39719/1 "2000-11-04T18:51:07Z")
Someone once told me an off-mentioned “fact” that the Vatican has the world’s largest pornography collection because of all the stuff they’ve confiscated over the years and keep in the basement. Anybody have any ideas/insights leading to the validity of this? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-porn/39719/2 "2000-11-04T18:53:33Z")
Welcome. A fast check of the book archive finds that Cecil has answered this himself a while back. You can find it [here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_074.html). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-porn/39719/3 "2000-11-05T00:23:09Z")
Guess we know what the Pope does in his spare time. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vatican-porn/39719/4 "2000-11-05T04:35:55Z")
Cross stitching? –Tim