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MulePat
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 6:57PM
just curious about this. do you hide it away under the bed where no one will find it.. or do you display it out in the open on the shelves?

and also , if you live with someone, how do you work your way around this? i know my girlfriend HATES porn, so i keep it tucked away.

Planet Sex
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1951 Posts
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 7:35PM
In the open. And in alphatetical order: Alien, Aliens, Anal Holocaust, Batman Returns, Bride of Frankenstein, Butts Akimbo...
Michael Saint
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 8:30PM
I used to have the DVD's out in the open. Not mixed with my "regular" movies like Planet but on their own shelves on my DVD rack. Then one of my friend's girlfriend made some comment about not wanting to go over to the "porn guys" place so I put it them under the TV. My VHS tapes are stored in the closet however, they are there just to the sheer number of them (ie not enough shelf space).
Saki
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 9:03PM
Magnet12
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 9:08PM
In my mind (just joking) I always keep them in the open shelf

Magnet12

 
Takeo
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 9:18PM
I actually throw all the covers and cases in the recycle bin and just keep the discs. For discs without disc art, I often make a label for them with one of those label printing machines just to make them easier to find. For storage, I use one of those CD binders. Nice neat little package that's very easy to hide if I want to... i.e. if company's coming over or something. Actually... since it just looks like an innocent little binder when zippered shut... you don't even really have to hide it. I've often had my secret little black binder out in the livingroom when people were over :)
Planet Sex
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1951 Posts
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Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 9:54PM
My 4th grade teacher, who's a catholic nun in her early 60's, still visits me from time to time. She knows that I'm a porn mag editor, she sees all the porny stuff scattered all over the house, and she doesn't care. If what I do doesn't shock a nun, I don't give a rat's patootie about what other people will think.
Hardz
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Hell on Earth
877 Posts
6/01
Posted - Jun 15 2001 : 11:43PM
If I kept my porn under the bed, I`d be sleeping 2 inches under the ceiling !!!!!!
I keep the porn where it belongs EVERY-WHERE.

My house is adults only & if they can`t deal with it, they can leave.

tricia_devereaux
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 12:45AM
Before Bella, we had a large display of John's VHS movies in our bedroom (along with some of our other favorites to watch).
Now, the only room in the house with porn VHS is the edit suite.
I too have a porn DVD binder-case which I keep in the bedroom still.
(Another reason to love DVD!)
Planet Sex
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 12:49AM

Edited by - Planet Sex on Jun 16 2001

-lunacy-
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 3:07AM
There's a couple boxes in the closet and most of the time a couple on the coffee table.
lazenby
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 8:25AM
i keep all my porn safely locked away in a metal filling cabnet. Only one problem though, my collection is becoming too big to store.

I wish private would stop making such good hardcore porn.
:-)


P.S does anyone else in the UK still own any third generation VHS copies in the white covers that we used to have to buy?

Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 5:30PM
I store my adult DVD's inside a 300 disc changer. I keep the cover art in a loos leaf binder filled tis page protectors that are numberes to match the disc location within the changer,
Flinty
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uk
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 6:03PM
Lazenby,

I know the white boxed vids you mean. I still have about twenty of these. Although not as easy to store as DVDs I had originally intended to find covers for them and keep them as they are good quality porn. However at the rate that studios are releasing dvd versions of older titles I may consider just throwing them or giving them to by brother as a birthday treat!

F*

TLF
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RI - Not Long Island
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Posted - Jun 16 2001 : 11:56PM
Well seeing as how I have PS2 w/19 games, I hide the DVD's in with my games. I keep the games in a binder that holds 50. My PS2 game cases are in the open (of course), while the DVD's are kept in a tackle box with the tray removed, which then it can hold 20 or so DVD cases. Oh and I keep it locked, and in the garage. And if you pick up the box it sounds exactly like theres reel and bait inside.

If this sounds confusing the DVD disk with the game disks are stored in a binder, while the dvd cases are locked in the garage.

Edited by - TLF on Jun 17 2001

 
JS
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West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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Posted - Jun 17 2001 : 1:49AM
I keep all of my vids in locked storage boxes in the closet. You can find some
nifty file folder storage type boxes at Target for real cheap, and put videos in
those. Mine hold 31 tapes exactly. However, I guess I should mention that I
don't keep the original factory cases for my videos (unless they are normal size
and fit the tape).

Justin

magnuspym
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USA
78 Posts
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Posted - Jun 18 2001 : 6:00PM
I'm with Takeo and Tricia-- the beauty of DVD is that you can throw 15 of the raunchiest porn titles ever produced into an innocuous and easy to tuck away case logic disc holder. Not only can it be tossed in a drawer if company's coming, but even if you forget, most people assume it's CDs for the car.

The only drawback-- I'm now realizing that alot of people would rather not buy/trade for DVDs without the original box and cover art. Considering the cover art on so many adult DVDs I'm not quite sure why this is... but it is.

Oh well.

Magnus Pym

greybeard
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Posted - Jun 18 2001 : 6:22PM
Before we moved to our new home about three years ago, my VHS porn collection was practically overflowing a four-drawer file cabinet, a couple of shelves in the bedroom closet, and a lower shelf under our bedroom TV stand!

Our new home had a half-finished basement when we moved in. We put in a home theater setup in the finished half, and had a "media storage" room built in part of the unfinished half. When we did that, we had the builders put in a narrow, but relatively deep, closet with lots of shelving underneath the basement stairs. This is accessed by a locked door, the location of whose key is known only by my wife and me. That's where all the porn is kept, now including a growing number of DVDs.

FYI, I'm pretty lucky -- my wife, while not choosing to watch it, doesn't object to my keeping and viewing it in the house. Seems her father had a lot of it himself, and made no secret of it! In that same closet under the stairs rest a fair number of his old VHSs, plus a bunch of old 8mm "loops" from the pre-home-video days!

Duke Dasterly
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Beautyful Downtown Chatsworth
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Posted - Jun 18 2001 : 6:25PM
I keep some tapes on me at all times, if i run out of gas or stuck in a HARD place there as good as gold,I havent tryed it to get out of a traffic ticket yet but I plan on it.I went camping one time and drank all my liquids and was thirsty ,the ranger said he wont sell drinks but when i offered a porno to him he gladly gave me two cold drinks from his cooler,there also great for tips.

Duke D. says,Spruce and Jagermeister Rule!!

tricia_devereaux
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Posted - Jun 18 2001 : 8:16PM
magnuspym-
I keep the original covers and boxes in cardboard boxes in the garage, as I do a lot of DVD trading and then I just get the cases out when needed.
dumblonde
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Posted - Jun 18 2001 : 10:06PM
I live by myself so I don't worry about it unless I'm expecting company, then I just make sure I didn't leave one in the set top player. I worry more about them finding a dildo in the couch cushions, or something.
Janitor
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Posted - Jun 19 2001 : 9:25AM
as oppossed to worrying about them seeing a mechanical saddle on your bed?
Trunks
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Posted - Jun 21 2001 : 11:48AM
lol
dumblonde
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2352 Posts
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Posted - Jun 21 2001 : 12:47PM
quote: "as oppossed to worrying about them seeing a mechanical saddle on your bed? "

ROFL!!! Well, if they've made it past the sight of my inflatable boyfriend hanging in the love swing, the saddle probably doesn't even register.

Planet Sex
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Posted - Jun 21 2001 : 1:03PM
Inflatable boyfriend + pointed fingernails = hilarity ensues.


 
bono-ONE All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jun 21 2001 : 9:35PM
I have my vhs tapes in various boxes but without the box covers they came in. I only saved a few just because they are so big and I just never kept them. As for my dvds they are so much easier to keep and I have them in a dresser drawer and on top of that dresser is my tv so they are close by. I always keep my dvd boxes they are small and easy for me to just put in a drawer like I have them in now.
Planet Sex
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Posted - Jun 21 2001 : 9:40PM
In the future, DVDs will be so small that you'll store 'em in Pringle's cans.
Saki
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Posted - Jun 21 2001 : 9:53PM
It's not the size of the discs that's the problem; it's the packaging. If you didn't want to save the keep cases and covers, you could fit 400 DVDs in the space of a telephone book. If you did, then you're talking a large bookcase.

And I'm sure if they did have discs the size of Pringles, then some people (who will remain nameless) will have a problem finding room for all of those Pringles cans full of porn!

- Saki

scipio
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Posted - Jun 23 2001 : 11:49AM
I keep them in a bunch of boxes in the bedroom wardrobe, where I have my VHS tapes which we are slowly wheedling through and purging - I want to eventually have no VHS tapes and only DVDs, which is what we did with the mainstream ones. Oh, I also have some drawers that are perfectly sized to hold a row of about 20 DVDs in each.

Though there are also some adult dvds out in the open, near the player and the "real" DVD collection. I find it's easiest to hide the adult DVDS that are out by just having a stack of them, spine facing away, with a mainstream DVD on top of the pile. I think The Blues Brothers is on top of several Private discs at the moment, and noone could be the wiser... not a permanent storage solution but a good way to not have to hide them when they're staying out for awhile.

cheers,

scipio

greybeard
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Posted - Jun 23 2001 : 3:25PM
Scipio:
I'd be kinda choosy about which of those old VHS porn tapes you "purge." If there are some of the old "classics" among them, be aware that many of the new DVD versions have been edited and/or are missing scenes entirely! Do a search on "edited" or something like that and you'll find a lot of traffic here about the subject.

Another point to be made (I know, this is "Adult DVD Talk" -- forgive me) is that many of the DVD releases of older material look like crap (see "Caballero"). In comparison, the old VHS copies don't look so bad!

Finally, in reference to the VHS copies you intend to "purge," if you're just gonna toss 'em, let us know! Some of us might be interested in filling in some gaps in our collections!

HoustonDon
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Houston
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Posted - Jun 23 2001 : 3:47PM
Mule, I live in an apt and keep all my dvd's in those cheap particle board, 6' bookcases you can buy at any K-Mart for ~$35 on sale. With all my videogames, cd's, dvd's, books, etc-they take up a lot of room. I'm a few years away from a large raise (in my current employment contract) at which time, I'll start thinking about getting a house. By that time, I'll need a house to store my stuff.

Saki, were you thinking of someone specific or just a general comment?

Takeo, you might want to save the cases and covers as they have a trading value even without the movie. Heck, I'd take them off your hands...

VHS?!? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Planet Sex
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Posted - Jun 23 2001 : 5:32PM
I won't rule out VHS yet. One of my favourite movies, Hitchcock's The Lodger , is available on DVD... on a crappy shitty lousy transfer. I have a duped VHS that's ten times better. So there.
scipio
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Posted - Jun 24 2001 : 12:04PM
Greybeard -

For mainstream dvds I'm always sure to check out details on which Region-version is the best one to go for with regard to extras and picture quality, and if I find a film has been edited or otherwise hacked with I don't bother with it at all. I use this site for the most part, which is pretty much R4-oriented..

http://www.michaeldvd.com.au

For the Adult stuff, almost without exception the DVDs are equal or better to what I had on DVD. For some titles like Night Trips, I've replaced an old fuzzy tape with a new grainy DVD.. pretty much like for like. The problem being that due to the nature of the Adult VHS market here in Australia, about 50% of whats available are bootlegs while the other 50% are "licenced" - both types basically get an original US NTSC VHS copy of the vid in question, convert it to PAL, then run it through a battery of VCRs for duplication.. all pretty stinky.

For the purged VHS stuff, I generally give the mainstream stuff away to relatives while I sell off the Adult stuff.. I'd let you guys know, but it's all PAL-format anyway, so probably not the most use..

cheers,

scipio

greybeard
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Posted - Jun 24 2001 : 4:33PM
Scipio:
Sounds like you've got things under control! I've heard of some people automatically trashing a lot of decent stuff just to re-buy it on DVD, then being disappointed, much less out mucho bucks! I have to constantly watch my step, dollar-wise, on re-collecting the same titles in various formats -- gotta eat (food - I mean, pussy's yummy but not very nourishing), ya know. There are a number of titles which I now have in three different formats -- VHS, laserdisc and DVD (some even in 3/4-inch U), so I must draw the line somewhere!

Meanwhile, I wasn't aware of what kinds of quality issues you've been having there. In some ways, although we in the States piss and moan about stuff, we often don't know how well off we are!

Planet Sex
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Posted - Jun 24 2001 : 5:19PM
First, I try to find out about the DVD quality.
If don't, I buy it.
If it's better than the VHS, I sell the VHS.
It it's equal to the VHS, I keep the DVD AND the VHS and wait a little longer.
If it's WORSE than the VHS, then I get pissed and try to get my money back.
 
snowman872
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Posted - Jun 25 2001 : 5:16AM

This thread inspired me to try something new with how I store adult DVDs.

I've decided to store them in MediaZone protective sleeves and keep the covers in a binder with Mead Media Zone protective sleeves. The Mediazone sleeves are similar to those sold by Caselogic, but a better value (2 per sleeve) and more durable. I alphabetized the binder and numbered each dvd and the sleeve protector. Assigning each disc a unique number will also help in the development of a database.

I bought these sleeves at CompUSA a while back when they were buy one get one free. They are normally $6.99 for a box of 25 (holds 50). They are also great for blank CDRs.

Snowman




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