OK, so things varied over the years. Some times it wasn't so much a porn stash as a "what I could scrounge together" stash. A few Sports Illustrated issues, checked out a few art & photography books and photocopied them on the copier in my parent's business office. Some underwear and swimsuit sections of some catalogs, though those were rare because my mom always tried to keep the big Sears catalogs in a stack. There was also the mailers that Playboy used to send out to try & get people to subscribe, showing some covers of issues & a promise of a special gift like a Playboy keychain. There were also some of the knickknack catalogs which would have stuff that would now be called "As Seen on TV", but would also have things like hi-ball glasses that stripped when you put ice in them. I used to stare at them and dream. Occasionally I'd get luck on my paper route and find a Playboy peaking out of a garbage can or some Hustler in a ditch, missing it's cover & centerfold. I'd try to keep them but they inevitably disappeared. I'm not sure if my Mom found them or my younger brother swiped them. It was kinda this little dance until I was old enough to buy them on my own.
Actually I managed to pick one up a few days before my 18th birthday. I was a regular at a newstand for comic books and I decided to try my luck and bought a Playboy. She asked when I turned 18 and I said a couple days ago. She congratulated me and never bothered checking my ID. Still grateful for getting away with that.
My other source was the combination of our VCR and the occasions we had an HBO subscription. Would check the ratings in the HBO guide, find shows that had (nudity) or (sexual situations) listed, set the VCR to record overnight and pull the tape out before anyone checked the VCR. Then check the movie in Fast-Forward mode to find the good stuff when I was sure the parent's weren't home. Saw a lot of trash that way.
We did stumble on some actual porn tapes. I still remember the movies and the order they were on the tapes. I always tried to be careful, making sure the tape was rewound back to the previous spot and putting it back. My brother, not so much. Left it with the rest of the tapes on the TV. My folks once even put one of the unmarked tapes in with my grandparents in the room. It got ejected at light speed.
I've still got most of my old magazines, mostly in storage. My computer porn collection started in the early 90's, when I finally got an ISP account. Lots of things from newgroups. Quickly ran out of room on my hard drive, so the collection moved to boxes of floppy disks, then ZIP drives, then burned on CDs. Now they are on a 2 terabyte drive.
My wife has no problem with my porn collection. Her's tends to be a collection of text files of fanfiction.
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