So where do you keep your porn/other questionables?
I keep mine on an old iPod Touch (32gb, a 28gb partition is used for file storage). The solid-state technology makes me so much more comfortable, and I don’t have to put down a ton of money for an SSD just for my porn. The only downside (which is actually an upside) is that I have to keep the collection trimmed down to that size. I keep a few lightweight games on there too, so as to not raise suspicion.
I also keep archives on both my laptop’s HDD as well as an external one. I back up my files about once a month, and place each .rar iside a tarball, which I then rename to cache.db, cache2.db, et cetera. Nobody ever fools with .db files, and the “cache” filename explains the huge file size. I downloaded perl so I could throw these files into a random directoy within, complete with dummy files, and claim to not to understand any of it if questioned.
Not smart guy-proof, but smart guys would never judge me for my porn.
Mostly on my PC; no one uses it but me. And “hide” would be an exaggeration; anyone who did get on my computer could browse though it easily enough. It’s not like I have child porn or something illegal like that.
There’s also some old boxes here and there with various books and magazines and such from before it became easier to just get everything online.
I’ve always marveled at people who collect porn. What’s the point? Traverse even google using incognito mode or some such, have your jollies, then continue on your way with zero evidence behind you. Understand that I mean no offense, I’ve just always been baffled.
“Keep” would be a better word, but too late now. I’d rather not bug a mod to change it.
I don’t believe the web will always be as easily accessible as it is now, at least not in America. What if pornography laws become more conservative?
Anyway, most of my collection is in the form of art, a huge portion of which isn’t even porn. A lot of this is very obscure. Even those images that are not obscure can’t be found easily unless you know exactly what to search for.
yeah…sure…that’s what they all say…
Me. I agree with nion…Why collect it? unless, of course, you’re one of those people who, after you’ve studied the plot and how it ends, still want to analyze the characters and the quality of the acting.
Allow me to give you this binder full of golf clap.
A friend of mine back in the day cleverly retitled “Strip Poker 2” to “Striker 2” and changed the icon to something explosion-ish.
I just keep mine on the D: drive. I have a large collection. Why? Because it’s like finding lost treasure! When you need some “new” material to enjoy, it’s all right there.
There’s also the issue of quality control. Say you like women in leather skirts. Google it. You will find many many pictures of people who wish to be women in leather skirts but aren’t. Not judging, to each their own and all of that. But I simply don’t prefer the material that Google serves me sometimes. My own collection doesn’t have that issue.
Don’t keep it in your room. Your mom will find it.
When I was a teen, my mom had a friend who owned a used book store.
She used to come to town one a month for a big flea market. Tired of dragging inventory back and forth, she asked if she could store it at our house. Not a problem.
Bored one day, and looking for books to read, I found out that half of her inventory was hardcore adult magazines from all over the world. This stuff was unbelievable to a 14 year old whose only exposure to the female form was Playboy and 16yo Lee Ann S. from 4 doors down.
I had purloined stacks and stacks of them, and put them in various cabinets and hiding places in my room. Then while I was away for a week, a huge storm flooded my basement room. Everything had to come out for drying and repair. There, my super-christian, conservative, god-fearing parents found everything.
When I got back, my parents never let on they knew anything until I headed downstairs and saw stacks and stacks of mags on the den table.
Bad times.
35 years later? Who needs it? Ain’t nobody got time fo that!
Today, the only adult material in the house is my Sept. '81 Playboy with my then GF and MGB in it!
I have a few things I’ve downloaded for when I don’t have internet access. I keep it all on an external drive, in a TrueCrypt file. I don’t think anyone’s likely to be digging through my drive looking for my porn, but there’s no sense in keeping it out in the open, and it takes all of about 30 seconds to access it when I want to.
I don’t really hide mine. Files are on an external hard drive, unencrypted. DVDs/Blu Rays are in a DVD file box alongside my other discs. My laserdiscs (yeah, it was available on laserdisc) are in with my other laserdiscs, filed alphabetically among the normal titles. “Ooh, let’s watch something! …Top Gun, Toy Story, Traci, I Love You, Trainspotting, Tromeo… what the hell?” Nothing on my phone, unless you consider the pictures archived in various text message threads that the last few girlfriends or flings sent. (Though when I’m dating someone, I have to be careful about letting people use it or having it visible in public. I’ve had a couple of embarrassing incidents where someone’s decided to send provocative pictures while someone’s using my phone or when it’s been sitting face up on a table with other people sitting nearby.)
When I was a teenager in the 1980s, and porn meant hiding bulky cassettes (okay, more like “cassette”) and magazines, I used to use the locking drawer on my computer desk. Years later, when I was married, I remember coming home one day to find an angry wife holding an old forgotten magazine that had apparently slipped behind the drawer. (Why she was digging behind drawers in furniture in the storage room is another question, though apparently “hiding porn” was her suspicion.)
I did learn pretty quickly that when your wife angrily says “What is this?!” that “Hey! I still have that!” isn’t the answer she wants to hear.
