In my fraternity house we had “47lbs o’ porn” – it was a milk crate filled to the brim with porn spanning 15 years. To economize, the magazines were culled of their non-photographic material (except for the Forum and Letters in Penthouse). Pretty much everyone had a subscription to Playboy, so they were always laying around in the john, but if you really wanted to go back in the archives, there was some great stuff in there. Each year, custody of 47lbs o’ porn would pass to a rising senior.
A funny busted story: When I was young, I would stay at my grandmother’s house damn near every Friday night. My grandmother lived with her adopted son, my Mom’s adopted brother, who though technically my uncle, was only seven years my senior. He was never much of a student; it took him about six years to finish high-school mainly because he spent all of his time smoking dope and running with the "cool kids” – think James Franco’s character on Freaks and Geeks. As a result, he was never there when I stayed over – oh, he’d usually come home at some point, but never before 2 or 3 in the morning. My main activity became pilfering through his room. Every now and then I’d find a roach with few good hits left in it. Once I found a copy of the Joy of Sex, but nothing compares to the one night I found the mother lode. You see, on one of his bookshelves, he had what appeared to be several years’ worth of Discover magazines, but upon closer inspection it was clear that something was nestled between each copy – another magazine placed in backward, spine to the back of the shelf. I began pulling these secret magazines out, one by one, in all 22 copies of Penthouse – the Cadillac of smut. At that point greed overtook me (truly, I know how Golem must have felt holding the ring), and I began to pack my score into my green vinyl ‘going to grandma’s’ bag. When I had them all packed, the bag must have weighed 25 pounds, and it was clear that I was leaving with more than I brought. To conceal this, I thought, I would just go ahead and put the bag in my grandmother’s car, get a head start on the “trip” (of all 3 miles), home. But on my way out the door, I was met by my grandmother, up for a mid night pull off her quart (no shit, my grandmother kept a quart of Lite in the fridge and would take a little tug every night before she went to bed). In her heavy Alsace-French accent she asked, “Vhut’s in zhee bahg?” “Huh?” I replied, as if nothing was up. “Zhee bahg, eets about to pop. Vhut do you 'ave in eet?” “Oh, uh,” but before I could say anything else, she had taken it, opened it and discovered my booty. “Vhut’s zhis?” BUSTED, think fast. “Oh, uh, yeah, I found that in John’s room. Uh, I was, uh, gonna show you, cause, you know, I didn’t think he was supposed to have it.” What a punk. “Oh,” she said, “thanks.”
As for me, I managed, for ten years, to keep five folded and weathered pages, torn from a Oui found in the woods, concealed in the jacket of a 45 record that came with my He-Man Castle Greyskull.