Just yesterday, I took my truck to the dealership for some work. I had some hardcore porn magazines in a storage compartment between the front seats. The mechanics must have been looking for the wheel lock key and then come across the magazines. When I returned to get the truck, one guy said, "Nice magazines." I checked to see if the magazines were still there and found that, although they had all been closed, one was now open and on top of the pile. Under other circumstances I might have been embarrassed, since I'll be going back there many times. But he didn't mind, so why should I?
- age 26, New Jersey
This Week's Wackiest Response:
Since I often find myself wanting to masturbate in almost every place I go, I keep a year's subscription worth of several erotic magazines clenched between my testicles at all times. The "file cabinet" takes a little getting use to, bit with patience, practice, and baggy jeans, I have learned how to open the drawer witohut using my hands. I just have to be careful when I close the drawer. That's a mistake you don't make twice!
- age 17, Texas
I used to take out a drawer of a little nightstand in the spare bedroom and put my magazines in there. One day, I forgot to put the drawer back in and my wife found the magazines after I left for work. The next time I got my magazines out, there was a little sticky-note on the top one that said, "Hope you have fun looking at these because that's all you're going to be seeing for a while." We never said anything more about it to each other. I just changed my hiding place and tried to be more careful.
- age 35, Kentucky
All of my porn is on my computer in a password-protected folder that no one knows about.
- age 16, United Kingdom
Between my mattress and box spring. One time my brother found it, and I felt embarrassed, until he showed me his stash. Now we share stashes.
- age 14, Illinois
I record porn off Cinemax onto a video that I keep right on the shelf with my other videos. A good rule of thumb for hiding erotica: Put it in a place where it is unlikely to arouse suspicion. A video on a shelf is much less likely to arouse curiosity than one hidden in a box in a vent behind a box in a bag in the laundry closet. As for magazines, I use only spineless ones (tough to find) and keep them with other magazines. If you don't have any other magazines, a good "James Bond-ish" place to hide them is behind a picture on the wall, between the picture and the backing of the frame. My porn has never been found.
- age 16, Illinois
I usually just look at Internet porn when I masturbate. I am always very careful to delete it from the History folder, etc. But once I forgot to delete the porn sites I had visited from the computer's History folder. I think my dad saw where I went, because when I said I was having a hard time getting all my homework done in the short amount of time I had, he said, "Maybe if you had stayed off the Internet and worked on homework, you wouldn't be so crunched for time." I told him that all I did on the Internet was check my e-mail. He said in a very pointed way, "That's not *all* you did." I felt guilty – not just for looking at porn, but also for lying.
- age 15, California
I keep most of my erotic materials in a toy box in my closet. My parents don't think to look in there – they think it holds only old toys and stuff that I never use any more. I usually have a stash of lube under my mattress as well!
- age 18, North Carolina
Once when I was about 16, I came home from school and to my surprise, I found my mom cleaning out my whole room. She had cleaned the entire room thoroughly. When I walked in, I was terrified because I could see that from where she was cleaning, she had to have come upon my stash of porn. She said nothing out of the ordinary when I walked in, and I told her that I was extremely tired and wanted to lie down. After she left, I checked and found my porn missing. Later that evening when I got out of the shower, I came back to my room to find all of my porn laid out across my bed along with a box of tissues!
- age 19, Minnesota
I use the Internet, so my porn materials are on my computer. I always delete the History entries and clear the Temporary Internet and Cookies folders out so no one will catch me. I'm the only one in my family who is really savvy about technology, so even if I should forget one time, I don't think I would be found out.
- age 16, North Carolina
Before I got my own computer (and later moved out of my parents' place), I used to keep all my gay porn on dad's computer. I hid it the best I could, but he found it eventually. My parents confronted me then, and so I was officially outed. When they said they had seen it, I was mortified. But in the long run, it was good, as it gave me the opportunity to tell them about my sexuality.
- age 19, United Kingdom
I have hidden my stash of 67 pictures from the computer (my 22-year-old brother's files) under my pillow. Once, however, I had taken one of my father's porn magazines and then fallen asleep with penis in hand and the magazine on my chest. When I awoke, the magazine was gone. It was the most embarrassing thing that had ever happened in my life! I slinked around the house for about two weeks after that morning. So far, my current stash has not been found.
- age 14, Maryland
I always kept my porn in a drawer next to my bed, so it would be handy when I wanted it. As my kids grew up, I guess they discovered it, because items would go missing from time to time. What was my attitude? "More power to them!"
- age 41, Florida
In my closet, there is a two-foot-square panel that leads into the space between the roof and the ceiling. Only insulation is up there – and my goodies. Right under a hunk of insulation are the electronic oral simulator I ordered online, some porn, and Girls Gone Wild DVDs that I also ordered online. No one has found the stuff and, unless my parents frequent this site, I doubt they ever will.
- age 16, Michigan
I keep pictures and videos on my computer, in a hidden, password-protected, secret folder deep within other folders. Only I know about it. I keep magazines and such in my night-table drawer in a secret compartment I made especially for them. I'm thankful that I've never been caught, and I hope I never will be. But isn't it odd that I'm so protective of my computer!
- age 14, Virginia
My stash of videos has never been found. I just hope nobody ever wants to watch Snow White or Beauty and the Beast!
- age 16, Illinois
Well, I still have some Playboys and lingerie catalogs from my early years, but virtually everything else is on my computer. Now that I have DSL, I think I'm up to about 15GB of porn movies.
- age 19, Montana
When I was very young, I hid a Victoria's Secret catalog (which I then considered "hardcore") under some bushes in a forested area of our property. I used to take 10-minute "walks" about 3 times a day. I'm sure my father knew I was up to something, but he never said anything. About 6 months later, I discovered the Internet and never went back to the bushes. For all I know, the catalog is still there!
- age 16, Washington
When I was between 14 and 18, I stashed magazines in a box in my closet. But since I went to college and saw that all the other guys just leave their magazines and videos lying around, I learned to do the same. I thought it was cool for others to be so open about looking at porn and about masturbation. It's sad, but until college, I didn't know that most guys masturbate regularly. As far as I know, my stash was never found – but if it had been, I wouldn't care. These days, I put the porn away if female friends come over; but if I know a buddy is coming over, I don't bother. They end up flipping through them anyway.
- age 34, Texas
Right now, all my materials are hidden in one of my speaker boxes. No one ever looks there, and I don't have to worry about it.
- age 16, Ohio
I have never had any erotic viewing materials, but my father does. Who needs magazines and all that other stuff when you have a brain between your ears? That is like an unlimited stash of "erotic viewing materials" that nobody can find unless they can read your mind.
- age 14, Iowa
When I was about 9 years old, I discovered my father's stash, which he kept near the toilet. When I learned how to masturbate at age 11, I quickly realized this was how sex must be done, so I used his magazines to visualize real-life sex. Then I would keep his magazines in my closet. However, my brother found them one day as he was looking for a shirt at the top of my closet. My mother confronted me and said she didn't care; my father didn't seem to care, either. Since then, my parents have bought me porn and I have no reason to hide it – they just give it back to me when they find it.
- age 16, Texas
I keep my erotic material in a box that says "Erector Set" on it. I knew that saving that old box would be good for something!
- age 19, California
"She asked what kind of trash I was bringing
into her house and what I was doing with it."
When I was 14, I had a hidden compartment in the back of my closet that was built into the wall. There I stashed my two Hustler magazines that my big brother had given me. One needed a screwdriver to open it, so I figured everything I put in there was safe. However, one day I forgot to close it, and my mom was putting away my laundry and discovered my stash. When I got home from school, she had my two magazines in her hands and asked what kind of trash I was bringing into her house and what I was doing with it (which should have been obvious because a lot of the pages were stuck together). She continued her tirade about how she would not tolerate materials like this in her house and I better not do it again. I felt quite embarrassed at the time, but the experience did not keep me from finding another hiding place (on the top shelf behind some cans in the garage) and rebuilding my collection.
- age 36, Indiana
My stash is in my computer. It's never been discovered. Before computers, I hid it behind books on my bookshelf in my home office. My wife never looks either place.
- age 62, Texas
I had a stack of magazines and a few videos that I hid in my cupboard under my clothes. I knew I didn't have to hide them too well because my parents didn't go looking around my room. Then one day some theft issue arose at school, so my parents asked if they could search my room for any items that might be missing from school. During that search, they found my collection. However, they were cool about it and said, "That's what boys your age do anyway, so why should we stop you?" I felt great that they didn't disapprove; but was still embarrassed. Now I leave the magazines scattered around my room and don't even worry about it.
- age 15, Australia
My computer pictures and videos are all in some sub-sub-sub-sub-directory in my computer, and I have modified the file extensions. I also have a quite ordinary-looking videotape where the first two hours are just a boring movie and some TV shows. Then after about 30 minutes of nothing, there are about two hours of pornographic movies. I always rewind this videotape after using it. I have kept all this material for over 3 years and to my knowledge, nobody has ever discovered it.
- age 21, Canada
At a yard sale, I bought a chest that has a false bottom in it. It works like a charm – I've never been caught!
- age 16, Tennessee
I am blessed with an overactive imagination. So until recently, I've maintained a virtual collection in my head. Lately, however, I've printed out some excerpts from JackinWorld and downloaded some photos from other sites. Most of this material remains encrypted on my computer, although I have printed out some items. I keep these in a folder in my bedroom closet, so they're handy when I want to "study them further." As I live alone, I am not too worried about discovery. If anyone should discover them, my response would be that I'm just a normal, horny guy. Since I'm single and uninvolved with anyone, I am not hurting anyone. Actually, I'm keeping my prostate healthy and my penis in good working order!
- age 62, Michigan
Actually, I don't have a stash.
- age 15, Kansas
When I was about 15 years old, I developed an intense interest in pornography. So of course, storing the magazines that I got from my friends was a problem that all of us had to figure out together. After weeks of searching for different places to hide these things we finally found that the perfect place was in our parents' bedrooms hidden under their armoires. Why would they think that any dirty material would be in their own room? This worked well for my friends, but for me, it worked out even better. I found that my father had a large stash of pornographic movies hidden in his closet. So I said goodbye to being sneaky and hello to a little thievery.
- age 32, Virginia
I save this material on my computer with file names that no one would ever expect to be porn – for example, "Tale of Two Cities quiz" or "Biology II report." English and biology have never been such fun and it's never been discovered!
- age 16, Vermont
I had a video of women masturbating. I got it in Miami when I was there on holiday. It was a nice video with different girls in different outfits coming into a room, undressing, and slowly masturbating. I liked it and would put it on in my room and then masturbate to it. I was looking for it one day, but it was gone and I couldn't find it. When I was home alone next, I went into my folks' bedroom and found it in my mom's underwear drawer. So I took it back. The next day, she was in the kitchen when I got home from work. She told me about finding the video and how great it was. Then she told me that she used to masturbate and when she saw the video, she ended up masturbating to it about 3 times. We hugged and now we have several and share them.
- age 22, Florida (female)
My TV stand is a tool chest. It makes a great storage place. There are locking drawers, and a big open space on the bottom with a locking door that is perfect for hiding whatever I might have.
- age 15, California
A good tip for any young male – store all of your material on computer in a WinZip file with a nondescript name. Password-protect each file and no one will ever figure out what it is. I have done this for years and never gotten caught. Just remember to clear out your C:\windows\temp folder after you're finished, because that's where the files unzip themselves after you type the password.
- age 16, Kentucky
The best place I've found so far is under the bottom drawer of some types of dressers. Usually, there's a space between the bottom drawer and the floor of the dresser (or just the floor of the room, if the bottom is open). Sometimes, when you pull the drawer out, it's easy to stash stuff in there, but most people never think to search there. I've also had good luck storing naughty things (particularly inflatable toys) in regular plastic storage bins. People rarely look in them, so you can keep them out in plain sight!
- age 31, Florida
I don't like to save these things anywhere because I would be very ashamed if someone found it. Even when I look at this Web site, I clean my History and Cookies folders, just to make sure *no one* can ever know that I visit sites with even the word "penis" written on it. If you had parents like mine, you'd do the same, I think.
- age 17, Belgium
I had a couple of magazines that my wife didn't know about, and had put them in the top drawer with my socks and underwear (kind of an obvious place) where she found them. When she asked me about them, I thought quickly and said I wasn't trying to hide them, which wasn't really true. But she accepted that and we looked at them together. Later I saw that she had left them by our bed and the sheets were messed up in the middle of the day, so I knew she had been masturbating. Since then, she's not a big fan of pornography, but at least we agree that naked bodies are exciting and that we can both get turned on by looking privately when we need to masturbate.
- age 43, Georgia
I keep mine on a Web site that I can go to at any time.
- age 17, Alabama
My stash is in a hidden folder on one of my computer's hard drives. I've had computers for *years* and I've never had anyone find my stash when they use my computer.
- age 33, Indiana
My dad built my brother and me a tree house in our backyard last year. It has a hollow roof that you could store things in, but is mostly empty. I have some of my uncle's magazines in my old backpack up there. I can see out, but from the ground, you can't really see in. So I can take them out, look at them, and then masturbate in the tree house without anyone seeing.
- age 14, Florida
I have a collection of pornographic magazines in a briefcase that I've had for years. Most of the material is stuff that my friend or I have swiped from our fathers. Once I found two porno tapes in my dad's cabinet, so I took them and put them into my briefcase. The next day when I went to open the briefcase, they were gone. None of the magazines were gone, just the tapes. My mother later talked to me about it. She said that the tapes were rentals and that if he hadn't returned them, he would have had to pay for them. So I guess I'm glad they found them. Otherwise, they would have had to go through a lot of trouble, money, and embarrassment.
- age 19, Texas
I have a suspended ceiling in my room that is made of 2-by-4-foot tiles that drop in. I lift the tiles up and keep my magazines and videos there. It's easy access; no one suspects; and no one has figured out that anything is above the ceiling. It's also a good place to throw my girlfriend's bra when she forgets it so that my mom won't find it.
- age 15, Pennsylvania
I used to keep magazines of naked men underneath my sweaters in the bottom drawer below my wardrobe. One day when I was at school, there was a problem with the pipes and my dad had to move the wardrobe. When I got home I found my sweater drawer turned over on the bed, and my magazines in full view. I felt quite embarrassed and turned bright red when I realized that my dad had seen them. But then he said to me, "I'm glad to see you're a normal teenager – but better not let your mum see these!" I felt instantly relieved and proud that he had spoken to me in a way that I felt he understood and respected my needs to masturbate with those pictures. Since then I've been able to talk openly with him about masturbation and about my sexuality.
- age 16, United Kingdom
Even though I have been married 30 years and have two older sons, I like to watch porn movies of guys masturbating. I had picked up a few movies and hidden them in the garage. One weekend, my wife got this thing about cleaning out the garage. She stumbled upon my little library – oh, how embarrassing! Ten years ago, I could have blamed it on the boys, but since they no longer live with us, I was caught red-handed. I had to admit they were mine and that I used them for stimulation when she wasn't around. She already knew that I masturbate, but had never wanted to face it. She handed them to me and coolly walked away. Boy, did I feel stupid! Of course, that didn't change anything. I still watch them and react to them just as I always have.
- age 55, California
I store all of my "stuff" on a CD-R. I have a CD burner, so I download it and view it on my laptop. I also label it as a game that I play all the time and burned the files hidden.
- age 14, Oklahoma