Do you have a secret folder on your PC?

[ave]

Last night my friend and I were drunk and we had a weird discussion: It was about porn consumption among men.

She claimed that almost all of her previous boyfriends DID NOT WATCH porn. I was laughing at it, so we started arguing. She said she investigated after they told her that and although she searched their PC's thoroughly, she couldn't didn't find anything... so I was thinking it was probably hidden very well.

Which leads to the following question: Guys, do you have a *secret folder*? This is anonymous by the way. :-P I want to show the results to my friend later on, so please participate! I know this sounds immature to a certain extent, but then again I don't think that it's influenced by age or maturity at all.

[petik1]

Removable media storage ftw.

[takeshi385]

I have an encrypted folder full of Information. Actually without software you can't see this folder so. The software isn't on my mac ,but on a on a portable encrypted drive.

[Elijah]

Perhaps some of them really did not watch it? I do not watch porn since I personally find it disgusting and do not see the appeal in it, so I voted no. Not that type of secret folder, anyway. I will likely catch hell for saying that but I do not care. I can say that with a clear conscience and it would be pointless for me to lie about it, as I would gain nothing. Just as you are entitled to watch porn, I am entitled to not watch it. :shrug:

[HEX1GON]

Guessing Hentai doesn't count :-P

[ave]

Perhaps some of them really did not watch it? I do not watch porn since I personally find it disgusting and do not see the appeal in it, so I voted no. Not that type of secret folder, anyway. I will likely catch hell for saying that but I do not care. I can say that with a clear conscience and it would be pointless for me to lie about it, as I would gain nothing. Just as you are entitled to watch porn, I am entitled to not watch it. :shrug:

That's interesting.
You could be the perfect husband for the stereotype feminist with this opinion. ;-)

[APE]

Streaming video makes it so you do not have to download anything.

To answer the question, my entire laptop is encrypted using TrueCrypt. If the bootloader didn't give it away it would look like the entire laptop is empty.

[BLUamnEsiac]

Streaming video makes it so you do not have to download anything.

To answer the question, my entire laptop is encrypted using TrueCrypt. If the bootloader didn't give it away it would look like the entire laptop is empty.
^ This
I have all sorts of hard drives and and removable media encrypted with TrueCrypt. But none of them containing the stuff that the quiz is about, just my personal project data and info.

[tails92]

Many people do not watch porn at all - they find it disgusting. I do look at it from time to time, and I don't think they're really wrong - most actors aren't hot at all, and I wouldn't get aroused with them irl.

[alphagamer]

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/files/2009/07/porn-ratio.jpg

[CodeAsm]

@alphagamer (http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/member.php?u=18346) haha lol, made my day (never seen this pic, hmm weird.)

[LeGIt]

Hmm my forearm strength was good because of cycling, motorcyling and exercise not masturbation :P

Still I don't know a single person who has no such secret folder or who doesn't stream something sometime - maybe I just hang out with sexual deviants or something but IMO it has become the norm. It is the public secret shame.

[Mystical]

streaming all the way, why bother keeping it?

[Yakumo]

No secret folder at all. If I had porn on the PC it would be in the download folder. My wife wouldn't care at all.

[st!]

No secret folder here. Porn is in 'pr0n' folder, in root directory, so every nosey pornwatcher could find it and keep himself busy leaving my true secrets alone. ;)

[davenixdorf]

Hahaha what a great poll! ... mine is stashed somewhere on the second partition in a folder with a really mundane name like 'System32_TEMP' :thumbsup:

[violentchiba]

I recently added a new 2TB HDD to my computer aptly entitled "Porn Vault" and within that drive lives a foldr named "Porn". Now my wife can find the porn with no confusion.

[Christer-swe]

I do. Weekends are too far in-between.

[davenixdorf]

I recently added a new 2TB HDD to my computer aptly entitled "Porn Vault" and within that drive lives a foldr named "Porn". Now my wife can find the porn with no confusion.

You joined the site just to tell us that? :lol:

Great first post :thumbsup:

[graciano1337]

I honestly can't remember the last time I looked at or watched porn.

[ave]

Indeed. Kudos to you sir, the start of a very manly user reputation. Welcome!


Hahaha what a great poll! ... mine is stashed somewhere on the second partition in a folder with a really mundane name like 'System32_TEMP'
I used to do that back when I lived at home and shared a computer with my parents. Like, waaaay back. hahahah. I renamed the files after windows files and added .dll at the end. Good old days :P
Nowadays I don't bother. The stuff I have on my harddrive is in a hidden folder so not everyone sees it right away, but it is easily traceable if you search the drive. I don't mind that and I neither could I date a girl who would mind (as long as one is not obsessed with it, what's the big deal!) :P

[Cyantist]

Yes, It's a flashdrive encrypted with truecrypt, I then keep this in a safe and put it under a floorboard under my bed.

Nah, it's just hidden.

[XerdoPwerko]

My girlfriend isn't insecure or possessive enough to fiscalise my internet consumption habits. I have my porn folder labeled "pr0n" and it's mostly artful images and videos from x-art and whatnot.
No biggie.

There are some hysterical women who want their men to not be able to even look at porn, and who get manipulative and psychotic and even take them to therapy. This shit is unacceptable. There has to be enough trust in a relationship.

These women are not mentally healthy enough to have a relationship, or are spoiled, manipulative, insecure, and possessive little princesses. Also, they are dangerous sometimes.

Men and women have needs. We all touch ourselves, and we are all curious, and we all have impulses. We can share them, but we shouldn't berate or manipulate others, or guilt-trip them into giving up whatever it is they like, just because we feel the need to control.

[WolverineDK]

That's interesting.
You could be the perfect husband for the stereotype feminist with this opinion. ;-)

Well, it is just that the "stereotypical feminist" is a (man hating I might add) lesbian. ;-) (sorry to any lesbians, or for that matter women who feel offended by the joke). And do I have a secret folder for porn ? nope, I have not. Cause if the lovely woman wants to get frisky, and have some inspiration to what she wants to do, or just have some masturbational fun. Then She is more than welcome to see what I have in my porn folder.

[XerdoPwerko]

I was reading this article the other day.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sexual-intelligence/201105/porn-addict-or-selfish-bastard-life-is-more-complicated (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sexual-intelligence/201105/porn-addict-or-selfish-bastard-life-is-more-complicated)

And pretty much, it nails it.

[ave]

A lot of women insist that "as long as I'm sexually available to him, he has no reason to masturbate (http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/masturbation)."This is so wrong. There's such a huge difference between the romantic/passionate form of "love" and masturbation. I do not believe both are substitutable, they are completely different things.

Anyway, I find that most girls are totally fine with porn consumption. I find we live in a society that accepts it, at least in Europe and North America - and Asia probably, but I'm not so sure about it. At least the Chinese girls here seem to be fairly aware of their Chinese guyfriends "AV addictshon heeheehee" :D

I mean, seriously - commercial porn has been widely available since the late 1960's. It's been super accepted in the 1970's, then came home video and it's gotten sleazy again, but nowadays with the internet and ever since streaming became available, it shouldn't be so much of a big surprise that everyone does it. It's available like freaking YouTube Lol.

@xerdo
Maybe it's different in hispanic society?

[XerdoPwerko]

Nah, I was talking about the States - from what I've read. This article is also American.

In my own experience, Latin Society is VERY hypocritical, but also we are extraordinary porn consumers. I don't know what older, married people think about porn consumption, but I do know that my grandparents went to the "adult" cinema together back in the day, and they were rather normal people.

I guess, at most, that Mexican women would simply ignore porn consumption, but the best ones are the ones that want to watch it with you. They are increasingly common. All my partners have had that trait, anyhow.

... Now that I think about it, though, I also know a lot of very traditional women, even many my own age, who would exteriorise being "offended" with porn consumption, but would just ignore it if their husband were a good enough provider.

They, after all, also ignore infidelity (which is almost a given in most marriages within very traditional and conservative people down here).

So I gues being "offended" is a matter of appearances, as it's going to happen anyway.


... doing more thinking, I recall that after my old man died, when we cleared his stuff from the closet, I came across his stash of beta tapes. My mom did not know about these, but she laughed a bit and told me they were probably a gift to him from her dad.

So either porn has always been quite normal, or the Captain (my grandfather) was one serious perv. Which would explain many things about me.

[violentchiba]

You joined the site just to tell us that? :lol:

Great first post :thumbsup:

:nod: I joined for marketplace reasons, but hadn't posted until this thread compelled me too!

[GodofHardcore]

I keep my porn on an external hard drive....but I have 5 gigs of Sasha Grey right now.....

What? I had a waitress the other day that looked like her

[ave]

Didn't she use to work as a waitress? Maybe she returned to her old job after leaving the industry. Lol