Porn Stash

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## Tales

* This troper doesn't download nor bookmark porn. I memorize links. Anyone else do that?
	+ Same here. God bless Incognito mode in Google Chrome.
* This troper got a free hollowed-out book from his sister. He stores a cigarrio, a lighter, and a 1 gigabyte thumbdrive in it. Guess why the thumbdrive is in there.
* This troper unashamedly has his stash in a folder clearly marked "Porn" on the top level of his hard drive. Anyone who dares to open it is going to be too busy looking for Brain Bleach to come ask what the hell is wrong with me.
* I'm not making this up. During this tropers time in college, the "student computer", which was uncheked by teachers, had 5 GB of porn in it. Not counting several movies. All by one year older student. This troper does no save his porn anywhere, internet is free, you know? And you are less likely to get caught.
* This troper hides all his gay porn in the Itunes Music carpet. Its hard to find between another 144 folders with names like Katy Perry and The Killers
* I feel sad for all you poor schmucks. at fifteen my Mom flipped over my mattress (facepalm) and found three hustlers stolen from my father's stash. Her response... I come home to a box full of unwanted dirty mags on my bed with a note saying 'when you're done with these tell your father and he'll trade you. EPIC WIN!!!
* I keep all my yuri in "My Faxes" which resides next to My Recieved Files, My Music and My Pictures.
* This troper keeps his stash nestled among his Java projects, where nobody in my family would have any reason to go. A routine search should not bring anything up because the names are non-indicating of their contents. The master folder is named LOL, for instance, and my parents are not the type to know what "loli" means when they see it. Being that it's some odd stuff (with a total of 11 photos of real people, the other 2,500 being ecchi images, furry art and fetishes) I once considered making a huge maze of numbered folders with one "password" to get to the stuff, but I realized that things like that only make me seem like I have something to hide.
* This troper just created an account here just to post this: I created a True Crypt-secured pen drive, so I store all my porn there. Thing is, most of it isn't really porn, it's mostly photoshoots of busty girls, and pics of them. I have also regular and gif porn
* Because this troper always had the luxury of a personal laptop he never felt like trying anything fancy with his over 80 megs of porn. Unfortunately he forgot to wipe the hard drive when he sold said laptop.
	+ 80 megs? What are you, fucking Amish?
	+ To mis-use a quote from a friend (original context was about 8 years ago about Warcraft, and a slip of the tongue that we teased him about forever after) "Who has 80 megs of hard dick space?"
* This troper is into... odd things. Don't ask. I'm not good with computers, and has a mom who is. My greatest fear (outside of giant bees) is her looking at the history and...
	+ That is precisely why this troper deletes his history each and every time, even though my parents aren't too good with computers, and I have my own laptop that they rarely ever touch. I'm not taking ANY chances.
* ' Not a problem today, as Firefox has Privacy mode, AKA Porn Mode. Turn it on, surf, turn it off, run C Cleaner to remove ANY traces. Even if you someone barges in, you have a good chanche of hitting "turn Privacy mode off" button before they see anything. Good idea: Go to TV tropes and THEN hit Privacy mode. When you exit, it looks like you have been looking at TV tropes all the time, or jsut moved there.
* This Troper uses C:/Desktop/New Folder/Res Hacker///Ã¯Â¿Â½///Ã¯Â¿Â½ . Each / represents an invisible folder. It has no name, and no picture, simply invisible. Inside each invisible folder, there are 20+ other invisible folders that you have to click the right one of the get into the next level. And the correct one is never right under the previous. Each porn file is renamed into something using ascii code so that it will never turn up as a result for a search. Ex: Ã¯Â¿Â½ or Ã¯Â¿Â½. GL finding those on the keyboard. And family members are not tech-savi enough to think to use a tree, which would only show you the 20+ hidden folders, not the correct one to go into. All this after forgetting to clear the history, and my brother finding it while helping my mom finding something.
	+ I'd almost expect someone to have to fight a boss when they made it to your Stash.
		- This troper's gut reaction to that would involve fruit falling upwards, but he's notched up 1000 deaths on I Wanna Be The Guy in the past 48 hours, so he tends to think everything involves that.
* This troper is a known ninja photographer, a trait acquired from his high school buddies. Among the many pictures he's taken with his mobile was a stolen butt shot (just for kicks; also acquired from high school buddies) of a female member of his Nakama who happened to be the best friend of his former crush. When they scrolled through his collection of pictures and found the said shot ('No, that was wrong! I was really aiming for the sky!'), they were predictably unimpressed. Their subsequent inspection of his phone yielded an even more loaded stash... which they deleted on sight. Ever since then, his phone's been subject to regular inspection from them.
* This Troper only using Recent Doocument cleaner, and only had total 100 M Bs of porn (and all straight, 'legal' porn). This troper visit a rich friend, living in a big house, five bedroom which two unoccupied, all equiped with Destktop Computer with 600 G Bs RAID-ed hardisk, 60 Gigs of them are porn, of three different speciality. One straight/Crosdressing, one shotacon/lolicon, third bestiality, he cried "NO GAY IN MY STASH!" when I joking about that. what amusing is, THEYRE SHARED!! what? no, he doesn't keep those in his private computer, no....first in his Dad's WORKING DESKTOP, second in his mom's HOME THEATRE DESKTOP, and third? HIS 22 YEARS OLD OLDER SISTER'S, THIS ONE WITH HER PERMISSION! "WHAT THE HELL?! YOUR SIS LIKE HORSE'S?!" "No, my sis like tentacle...". Just as PORN-ed indeed
* Folder mazes are weak. A simple search can run through them, EVEN HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS. Archives? You have to decompress them every single time, and some formats are STILL searchable. Encryption? A bit far and complicated for some porn...Perfect solution? Three words: Remote Desktop Protocol. Nobody ever suspects the little desktop sitting in the corner of the room, blinking away innocently with no HI Ds attached. Files can just be left laying around, browser history and temp files can be neglected, etc. etc. This Troper likes his setup.
* This troper keeps all of his in C:\Quake2\baseq2\save\error although not immune to searches targeted at large amounts of files, it keeps the casual out. If I was ever to go to a LAN party I would probably throw it all in a .RAR file and stash it away in a large game's database.
* This troper keeps his stash within a sparse image buried deep within Finder encrypted with 256-bit AES ciphers and whatnot. It's not indexed by the Finder, and when I'm finished, I simply unmount the image. All recent file history goes bye-bye, so its undetectable. Of course, I also have a web backup...
* This troper keeps >2 gigabytes of hentai in his C:\Sierra\Half-Life directory in a PAK file (special compressed file used by Half-Life). Completely undetectable, even if you were to look into the files. I had to put compressed files inside the PAK and change the extension, though.
	+ When this troper was a teenager and shared a computer with his parents, he kept his pictures inside his Red Alert 2 folder, in a subfolder that was named to blend in with other game folder names.
* It's not "porn" per se and it's not a "stash" either, but once when we were hosting some Japanese exchange students, we had to mind about 7 or 8 middle school girls until their host families could come to pick them up (since we live just up the road from the school they had the exchange program with). This Troper was still at uni and my mother, who doesn't speak Japanese, was at her wit's end over what to do with them until I got back. So she directed them towards my manga shelf, which she'd never examined before. Unfortunately, I own very little Japanese language manga, with the most prominent of the ones I DO own being Iketeru Futari. You know, that really ecchi seinen series. When I got home and my mother told me about it, my reaction was along the lines of "...thanks a lot, Mother. Thanks a lot!"
	+ Thanks for helping me find a new fetish. The series isn't really ecchi though. More like softcore hentai.
* This Troper does not watch regular porn, only Hentai, he is 23, got into Hentai since 16 and still not caught in any awkward situation (which helps his social position a lot now that he is a full grown adult). Here is the thing, his "Porn Stash" is actually a shitload of Eroges stored in the form of disc images, straight raping simulators and the Plot With Porn games are all in there, and the folder is put in his game disc images (which itself is put in a disc images, which contain disc images of his Blu-ray movies and software C Ds). Let's say some regular guys by chance find his beloved PC turned on and unoccupied, he'd pretty much fall into these cases:
	+ He can't find my Porn Stash, that's it.
	+ He can't distinguish those Bible Black, Saya No Uta or Utawarerumono among my regular PC games
	+ By any chance he stumble upon my folder, he must be a pretty computer guy to figure out how to get something from those disc images. No I don't install Daemon Tools on my PC.
	+ Let's say he can burn the images, by the time he see the anime-esque, he'd pretty much be turned off if he is not into Japanese culture.
	+ If he is actually into those things and he install the thing and play it (or just pick up that weird game icon on my desktop), he'd have no idea this Walls Of Text is porn, if he is still a regular guy. Who'd have patience to sit through hours of boring text until the sex comes up anyway?
	+ If he knew those games are porn right away... well, I've got a new mate!
	+ After 8 years, many people who I've got acquainted with pretty much fell into those cases, much hard work spent on concealing that though.
* I heard a story (probably made up) from a computer tech guy who I was sort of friends with. A guy comes in to get his computer repaired. The tech guy on duty says the generic blah about how they will fix it (it was supposedly some virus problem he couldn't fix). The guy says "I hope you have a good time fixing it, and that's not just because I downloaded a few gigabytes of porn to satisfy whatever fetishes your staff could possibly have and flooded all the important files with near identically named screamer links." The crazy porn guy became a local legend.
* Truth In Television in this troper's life, with a subversion! My mom once admitted to snooping through my laptop to find a possible porn stash. I had actually made the decision to never have porn on my computer, so that worked out.
* Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit A: 4chan.
	+ OBJECTION! Porn Stash is for private stashes, not publicly accessible ones!
		- Sustained, please continue with the examination.
		- But everybody who reads 4chan more than casually keeps their own private "fap folder" of favorite images saved off of 4chan. So the imageboard itself may not be a Porn Stash, but it certainly encourages same.
* This troper once stumbled upon some very, very, very raunchy porn on his girlfriend's laptop (like triple penetration). It was super awkward AWESOME.
	+ Gift horse, man.
	+ Fixed that for you.
	+ Triple penetration?
		- Yeah, is that like, one in each hole or three in one? O-ring orifices?
		- This troper spends some time on a tasteless humor, clip and pic site. There, he has seen quadruple penetration, with one more in the mouth. Not right...
		- Entirely aside from jamming four round objects into a round hole, hoe does the acrobatics of that work? There doesn't seem like there'd be enough room for all the butts involved... (Edit: 'hoe' was a mistype, left in for comedic effect.)
		- It's pretty simple. The girl sits on top of the guy penetrating her ass, with him lying down (feet together). The guy going in her vagina stands with his legs wide. The two guys going into her mouth stand up at the side.
		- I think there's a basic misunderstanding going on here. If a woman having sex has a penis in her anus, and her vagina, and one in her mouth — that's NOT triple penetration. That's just a foursome or a fivesome or a full-blown orgy or whatever. A real triple penetration is three penises in the single hole. A double penetration would be relatively easy - two men sit facing each other, penis-to-penis. Or alternatively, one of them's underneath and the other's on top, with both penises going in the same hole (this kind of double penetration occurs in both gay and straight porn). But again, how the hell would a triple penetration be even possible? The mechanics involved would make it almost impossible.
	+ Exact same story, except it was a cute but uptight and mousy girl who sang in the church choir with me who ended up being my girlfriend sex toy.
* This editor used to work at a PC repair shop with questionable ethics (and large monitors). Whenever we found a porn folder, out came the slideshow program.
	+ This troper assures you that this is not uncommon, and has been standard operating procedure since at least the mid-1990s. (In retrospect, it was weird and creepy, but it seemed perfectly normal at the time.)
		- That's exactly why this troper is scouring his computer of porn and other... sensitive... files (IM logs, browser history, cookies, bookmarks, saved fanfic...), before getting it serviced.
	+ This Troper's dad claims to have done almost the same thing working for a by-mail photo developing company. Apparently they made a 100cmX70cm copy of anything naughty and put on the wall in the break room...
	+ Isn't that how Gary Glitter was caught with kiddy porn?
	+ First thing this troper does when someone gives him a computer for repair is a general search for image and movie files, which then usually get added to the personal collection (barring weird fetishes, hentai, furry and all that, which aren't appreciated here). I don't even need to open the files to figure out what they are, looking at the path is enough (though usually the filename is pretty self-explanatory as well). People have so little imagination... jpgs hiding in nested folders show up like christmas trees in a search. :P
* I think that this troper is the only one who doesn't have a porn stash. The closest thing she has ever had is probably a folder containing stuff related to cartoons she wasn't allowed to watch back in the day, including Homestar Runner and Dragonball Z stuff.

	+ This troper was once told by a Best Buy tech support staffer that the store would keep everything on my computer absolutely confidential except porn, for the purpose of informing authorities, presumably because otherwise the store might be considered an accessory.... And this was in Nevada of all places. I swapped out my hard drive just in case.
	+ This troper doesn't have a porn stash; Instead, he uses Firefox's porn mode and searches for in-browser porn. Low-quality, sure, but safe.
* This troper, once he got into the Furry Fandom, encountered plenty of times where his parents snooped through his room to find his stash of porn. Paranoid were they in a What Were You Thinking sort of way, they one time even attempted to have him arrested for one such search to get him to stop; they were thwarted - and this trope subverted - when the police officer informed them that no, the porn wasn't illegal and he was old enough to have it. .
* This Troper was probably in his early teens when he found his dad's porn sites by looking at the history in the URL bar. Put it simply, he didn't know much about computers. So as any teenage boy would, he looked up lesbians and was overall pretty normal until he stubbled upon hentai and rule 34. Years later he's 18 with his own porn stash well hidden full of women who don't even exist and/or are furries...yeah...while my dads stash is concitered normal, it would be even more awkward if someone found mine.
* And this troper has more than once walked in on her brother looking at catgirl transformation nudes (and blames Totally Spies) on internet sites. At least he had his pants on at the time.
	+ I'm sorry, that brother wasn't me, was it?
* A while back, I was called upon by my mother to delete my brother's stash off of his laptop while he was at school, and we both found material that would make the Rule Thirty Four-abiders blush (Lolicon beastiality and Arthur porn, anyone?) Of course, I also have my own well-hidden stashes of hentai doujinshi, both off the computer and on... strangely, all the downloads seem to be made up of Keine Kamishirasawa smut and Suicide Girls pics, while the IRL ones are more... erm, varied.
* This troper keeps a stash of porn links on her computer, and would save the porn to the computer... if it weren't for snooping parents.
* This troper and his brother have a large collection of porn on a laptop, the family desktop (hidden amongst research papers and fan fiction entries) and a storage device. This troper's girlfriend also frequently borrows his erotica.
* This troper is so happy he got kicked out of his parents' house at 18 (for completely unrelated reasons, I swear). Having an apartment to himself means he can porn it up whenever he damn well pleases.
	+ This troper has his own apartment, in a different town from his parents, who are members of the conservative wing of the Presbyterian church. One day he came home to discover his parents had used the emergency key to enter and clean the apartment for him. This troper's collection of recycled water bottles was thrown away, but in his office was his porn stash, neatly stacked with the least offensive item on top. Their only explanation was 'we thought you needed it'.
		- I'm sorry but BURN!
		- I just read the above comment and LO Led in my pants!
		- Is the aesop here to never let other people organize your porn?
		- Completely unrelated comment: I'm sorry, a recycled water bottle COLLECTION?
		- My mother collects tins that used to hold items of food. Who am I to judge your collecting hobbies, especially here.
* This troper has a porn folder with several sub-folders that he has named Sarah and characterizes as a very obliging sort of "girl".
	+ This troper calls her porn folder 'Archive 6' in honour of the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf. One character declares "Archive 6 is out of bounds," to which another replies, "Do I look like an out of bounds sort of guy?"
* This troper suggests all predecessors to read some literature about steganography and also try out this freeware program.
	+ This troper encrypted half his hard drive and his secondary browser's history inside it. His secondary browser is the most used, with the links out in the open. The encrypted part can also be shut off by a combo of keys, and he'd still able to perform many basic stuff. Now if only he'd clean up some ends on the "open" part. This is done since...porn is illegal where he's living.
		- Iceland?
		- Hell?
		- Heaven?
		- Australia.
* This troper's friend works with computers (repairing them, I think) and often discovers porn stashes on them. Once, he found child porn. Needless to say, the police were called.
* This (asexual, dammit!) troper has managed to subvert this by having her parents, not looking for anything incriminating, find porn on her computer she had neither downloaded, sought out or purchased- it had- legitimately been downloaded by accident from a sharing site in the vein of Limewire and programs of that sort, and was deleted, again, mistaken for something more legitimate by another sibling entirely. It hadn't even been watched. It did, however, look like really sloppily hidden and then deleted porn. Some explaining to do there. She's gotten her revenge, oh yes she has. ('What are you typing, honey?' 'Homework...')
	+ Are you me? But... but I don't remember writing this...
* This troper was told to go to her mother's room to get a credit card from the drawer, and found Pornographic DVDs where the card was at. The troper was pretty squicked by the subject matter of the porn and almost forgot to bring the card back up.
* This troper had the strange experience of visiting a website about Yiddish folksongs, which cut to a sexually explicit ad for a porn site —the ad featured an oral sex photo. This happened more than once with that site. I can only guess that it was spam and some software program chose the Yiddish folksong website totally at random.
* This troper has nothing to worry about: his computer-only porn stash is protected by RAM-only file systems, encryption, passwords, steganography, dead-man's switches, and careful selection of software. Not even the FBI could get their hands on it — and for good reason.
	+ You're so paranoid about hiding that stuff, and then you go admitting you have it, on a website that tracks you by IP address? Nice job.
		- Also: what the hell, dude? Seriously.
		- This Troper also uses strong protection (TrueCrypt, standard volume), but has no expectation that it's secure from the feds. Keyloggers, spyware, or EM leaks could compromise it. Fortunately for me, it doesn't matter. I really do this just hide it from my family. They are somewhat technically literate, and if fate should drop a bridge on me, I'd rather them not find it.
		- That's a TOR IP address. Good luck tracking it.
		- If you mean drawn and/or written only... Well, it's not my place to judge that, really. If you mean real photos... Kindly get the hell off of TV Tropes.
		- And (this is the just-above troper again), TOR is not supposed to be used that way. That just perpetuates the bad name that sort of thing gets. It's intended to provide freedom of speech (through the internet) to people suppressed by governments and other organizations, not to allow illegal activities to take place.
		- I Agree that you shouldn't use it for that, but above troper has no idea what he is talking about. How is "illegal" any different from "suppressed by governments"? Illegal stuff is suppressed by the government that made it illegal and vice versa. And by his entry, he did nothing else than use free speech. Also, what's wrong with it when it's drawn? I'm no fan of it either, but as long as nobody was hurt..
		- Pardon me, I meant more immoral than illegal. Using TOR to go around an oppressive government that doesn't provide the basic freedoms that a large portion of the world believes in is vastly different from acquiring images or videos of children being abused for your own pleasure. I also noted that if it's fictional (stories or drawings) I may personally feel a little squeamish, but I don't believe that should be illegal. However, the word "Lolicon" doesn't necessarily imply drawn or written (particularly since we don't have a "Child Pornography" trope to link to), which means the OP (the one going on about having Lolicon - who was also 'bragging' about misusing TOR) may be a real pedophile - which is disturbing and disgusting to the vast majority of people.
		- Perhaps surprisingly, some government do actually ban virtual child porn (drawings, stories, actors of age made to look younger). What with a good justification missing, I consider that somewhat oppressive. Also, one should always presume innocence until proof of an actual crime is found, right? Oh, and paedophilia in and of itself is nothing amoral. Child molestation is.
	+ You are not secure from the FBI. XKCD said it best [1]
		- They are so right, wrenches are really expensive
		- That's really going to work out great in court. Especially in the USA, thanks to fruit of the poisonous tree.
	+ The FBI doesn't care, it's completely legal in the US, CSIS are the guys you need to watch out for.
		- Completely legal unless the jury says it isn't. [2]
	+ And here this troper thought giving the folder a blank name and an invisible icon was enough for porn security.
		- For run of the mill hiding-from-family, yup. For (as the initial poster potholed) lolicon (either fictional or, since there was no clear distinction made, real child pornography), which is illegal in a number of countries, it's not really. The porn most of us hide from the families isn't illegal - just embarrassing, at most.
	+ People who actually work in the intelligence community will tell you that nobody bothers with encryption within trusted systems. The attacks just don't come from that direction. Why bother cracking your disk encryption when it's so much easier to just bug your display?
		- If the FBI has just cause to search your computer, they won't do it from your home. They'll take the computer, rip it apart, and manually take the files off your hard drive. This is the federal government, after all. If they think you've got something illegal, encryption is not going to stop them. It's incredibly easy to crack encryptions with a computer with a few parallel processors. You'd be going to prison for a long time, bud.
* This Troper has his own personal computer, locks his door for privacy, and names his files inconspicuous names. His older siblings and parents have no reason to use his PC since they have their own public PCs and laptops, so hands off!
* This Troper knows the value of thumb drives.
* This troper has had to explain to her mother that just because she writes lesbian sex scenes, that does not mean she's gay. (Probably for the best mamacita never learned that it was RPF, too...) And then there was the time this very troper stumbled across her boyfriend's erotic fiction... on an archive she blushes to admit reading at that caters to a fetish she never told him she was into.
	+ I hate to seem like a jerk, but why would you write lesbian sex scenes if you weren't getting off on it?
		- Clearly, you aren't a woman. Women CAN get off on writing lesbian sex scenes without actually being lesbians themselves. (And, no This Troper is not one, he just does his research.)
		- It should go without saying that men, who are by definition not lesbians, can also get off on lesbian sex scenes. So no, one one does not need to be a lesbian to like girl-on-girl!
		- Also, the gender-switched variant (Yaoi Fanboys that are otherwise heterosexual) does indeed exist. This Troper thinks the important lesson is that what gets one off in fiction does not necessarily get one off in real life (after all, some asexuals like reading Lemon Fan Fic).
	+ When I read that sentence, it took me a moment to realize that it was the troper, not the troper's mother, writing the lesbian sex scenes. (Or was I right the first time?)
	+ Greatest boyfriend ever. Did you eventually talk about it with him? Please go on...
* This Troper keeps his porn hidden in plain sight, that meaning on his desktop, in a folder on his desktop, in a folder labeled New Folder, a folder labeled Shared, and a folder labeled Downloads, among other things. No one's ever managed to find it. He's even kept a hidden stash in his mother's laptop, should anything go awry with his machine. That one's in a hidden folder, and no one in his family's computer savvy enough to find it.
* This troper just settles for memorising UR Ls of good online sources and obsessively cleanses the internet history. Especially after what happens at LAN parties after someone falls asleep; their computer is searched for porn, which is then ridiculed by the group. In once case, a laptop left behind had all porn replaced with identically-named gay furry porn.
* This troper is extremely glad that pretty much everyone in her family is technologically impaired.
	+ You better be talking about fictional instances of it.
		- Ummm...isn't Shotacon always fictional and drawn? I think the real stuff has another name for it...and besides, she a girl...who's gonna arrest a girl for having drawn pictures of little boys?
		- Girls can be sex offenders too.
* This Troper keeps his porn private by the simple expedient of saying that any porn is hidden for the benefit of others, not himself and that it's simply better for them not to know. For most people, it would just make them more curious. However, I scare the hell out of people enough that they take it on face value. (I'm not lying, though. What I'm into causes a violent Squick reaction in some males)
	+ This troper challenges the above troper, in that he defies being squicked. It is very, very hard to squick this troper.
	+ I challenge you as well. Nothing I've found online has squicked me yet. Gay porn I just find unattractive (and for good reason; I'm straight as a geometric line), furry porn is also generally unattractive (depends on the artwork), fetish porn is... usually not as fetishy as people think, I laughed at Goatse, and the last time I remember being squicked was seeing pictures of burn wound victims six years ago.
	+ Have you seen that penis mutilation video? Any male who isn't at least slightly squicked by that lacks proper preservation instincts.
		- Oh yeah!? Well that's one of this troper's fetishes!
		- Spoilers also exist for the benefit of others. Urh...
	+ I'll throw in my challenge, too. Yes, I have seen the penis mutilation video(s). I would like to point you toward BME Pain Olympics and the 2girls1cup videos, neither of which squick me. In short: bring it on.
	+ I too shall challenge thee! This Troper has been through the entirety of the Encyclopedia Dramatica offended page without being squicked. Beat that!
		- Have a go at Slaughtered Vomit Dolls then.
		- This Troper was squicked by offended, but, to my own surprise, not from any of the mutilation or normal Squick stuff, by the pictures of cute small animal killing
* Roughly 8 years ago, before the era of teenage computer ownership made porn easy to get hold of and computer knowledge made it possible to completely cover one's tracks, this troper found his dad's stash of magazines, which contained things a 13-14 year old would find pleasantly kinky. Lots of lesbian threesomes. In fact, almost all of it was lesbian porn. And of course one was caught taking a gander at the lesbian porn. But lieu of punishment, dear old Dad simply explained... that it was not his, but mom's lesbian porn. The next week or two was mighty awkward.
	+ You are sure he wasn't just fucking with your head?
		- Yes. He showed me his own stash afterward. His didn't have a vibrator in it, and considerably less lesbians. As I said, mighty awkward.
		- Wouldn't you suspect it was your moms stash after you found a vibrator in it? Even if you still thought it was your dad's stash, wouldn't the vibrator thing be a bit more awkward than dad finding you with your mom's porn?
		- you think a 13-14 year old kid would recognize a vibrator on sight?
		- If this didn't take place in the pre-readily available internet age, I'd say yes, and even then, not impossible.
		- I think you'll find the troper meant vibrators being pictured used, not an actual physical vibrator. Although, it is ambiguous...
* This troper keeps the good stuff hidden in a folder which seems to hold nothing more than copies of papers and such written for classes. Among the reports, projects, graphs and essays is a folder named "Rough Drafts", wherein one may find all the glories that Bit Torrent and Limewire can offer.
* This troper subscribes to the Vetinari School of Concealment when it comes to the better part of his stash. Who's going to dig for porn in the folders labelled "Random Technical Junk," "Anatomy Practice - References" (I'm learning animation and planning to dabble in comics, so some of it IS for research - of course it is!), and "Humor of the Accountants and Lawyers, Volumes 6 and 7 of 42"?
	+ This troper has a purposely messy file system, and tends to put that kind of thing in misc/misc.
	+ On a barely related note, this troper actually does use porn for anatomy and pose references. Which results in having to draw only when nobody else is around.
* This troper has the joy and fortune to have a wife who acknowledges and accepts the existence of a few significant (and furry) file folders on his laptop. If this computer is ever looked through by authorities/repair techs/whoever, he sincerely hopes that what they find will deeply entertain them.
* Averted or subverted with this troper: Her father consistently jokes about his kids having porn stashes or looking up pornographic websites, but doesn't look into it (or doesn't admit to it). Considering we all watch anime and some of the stuff we watch could almost border on porn, he figures he doesn't need to know if we're looking into more.
	+ And played straight apparently! Her dad works in the computer repair business. She suspects he occasionally comes across porn stashes, but there's only one instance he's told her about. Apparently, one client has pictures of gay porn (or something to that effect)...and made his screensaver a slideshow of them. Troper's dad has to remember to move the mouse every now and then to avoid seeing them again. Troper thinks this is funny as all hell because Troper's dad doesn't seem to get squicked out very much.
* This troper, many years ago, had not the foresight nor the care to clean the porn links off his computer, which was shared with his mother. For this, I apologize to the Web and the World, for what happened was that the troper's mother found the website wherein the troper had been reading adult Harry Potter fan fiction, and is now one of the most prolific yaoi writers on the (well-known and large) website. This troper has unleashed a vile force of darkness into the Web.
	+ Man, this must have been awfully awkward...
	+ BURN THE WITCH('s clothes)! And film it while you're at it.
	+ Why are you apologizing? Also, I'm sure 'twas awkward as hell for you, but... Crowning Moment Of Funny, for da winz!
* This troper has an external hard drive, each of the partitions automatically mounts on startup....except for one.
	+ Am I the only one who's mind went to decidedly the wrong place reading that?
		- No.
* This troper has an external hard drive that he stores all his files on, including games and self-written fanfiction. On the hard drive is a hidden folder called "x". In that folder is a True Crypt (idea taken from above) image, protected by a password only he knows. (He has a dozen passwords of increasing security importance, ranging from "don't give a shit" to "paypal account" but that's another story..) The True Crypt image has a "plausible deniability" setting on, so the hidden image can only be accessed with another password he only knows that is of a higher security level than the decoy. In the hidden image is a file called "pr0n.txt" that basically says you must be a loser to go through all that trouble for a worthless text file. The porn stash is actually in a hidden folder, with a non-standard character only typeable using a character map as the folder name, on a Memory Stick PRO Duo card that he also uses for storing his music to play on his PSP; all the better because he doesn't use it at all anymore, so nobody suspects him of storing his porn on an "unused" storage device of a dead format in a dust-gathering deader game console.
* This Troper, having recently gained access to a private, offline computer, plans to transfer a three-year-old stash to there from the online computer through an external hard drive. For now, though, the "USB Drive Mule" option has served him well.
* You know what's a good way to give yourself a Heroic BSOD? Accidentally clicking on your dad's unlabeled gay porn images when you're fourteen.
	+ Being 10 and finding printed-out woman/wolf sex stories in a computer desk drawer also works.
	+ This 30 year old troper found her deeply religious father's gay porn stash last year, and thought, 'thank heavens he has some fun.'
	+ This Troper went on the family computer and looked at the history to go to a site he had been on the day before (which wasn't porn) and found that much of the history was filled with "Barely Legal Drunk Teens". Following that day this Troper made his own profile on the computer so he'd never have to see this EVER AGAIN. BTW, this Troper was 14 when this happened.
* Subversion: This troper had on his school computer a file clearly labelled "Not Pornography" where he kept all his work, hoping that someone would call him on it. Sadly nobody did. So now, working with this idea, he keeps all his porn in a folder labelled "Not Pornography." Because no one would be stupid enough to keep all their porn in such an obvious hiding spot, right?
	+ To be fair... do you really know that nobody looked in it, or just that nobody said anything about it? I mean, if I were a snoop, I would certainly look in a folder with that title, but it's not as though I'd admit it — what do you say? "Hey! I was looking around in your folders, and that folder called 'Not Pornography' doesn't have any porn in it! What's up with that?"
* This troper keeps her yaoi manga in plain sight in her room. Her parents don't care, and her brother doesn't care either.
* This troper's "Homework" folder contains English, Science, History, Spanish, Math, and Other...
* This troper has over 600MB of pornographic pictures in her laptop.
	+ This troper, in the interest of not turning this into a penis-size competition, will only answer "ha".
		- This troper has no such compunction-He sees you 600 mbs, and raises you 5 gbs on his laptop, with a further 10 gbs secreted away on flash drives, other comps, and the like.
		- This troper will only laugh a whole lot at your puny 15 gbs, and raise you twice that amount. It's getting to the point where his laptop is becoming nothing but an electronic porn stash.
		- This troper wonders if the other two noticed that the thread starter specified pictures.
		- This troper noticed and raises the starter 28.2 gigs of almost nothing but pictures, so, yeah.
		- ...35 gigs here. And I'm actually hoping someone finds it all so I finally have an excuse to delete it all.
		- 80 gigs. About 90% of which is... well, you know. This troper always logs off every time he stands up from this machine.
		- This troper has a old shitty computer in his room, next to his good computer. It has 140GB of storage. 138GB is full. All of it porn. It has been categorized(Lots of free time) and is roughly divided into Pictures(43GB) Animations(40GB) and Videos(55GB). Check. Mate.
		- This troper bought an external hard drive just to store his porn. About 200 gb is video, 10 gb in doujin/hentai and 6 gb in real woman pics. That's not counting the stacks of burned CDs before buying the external HD. Actually, that's kinda sad when this troper thinks about it....
		- 2 GB pics, 105 GB vids, but that's just because more couldn't fit on This troper's FIRST external hard drive (the other one is for MP 3's). I also have a box full of CD-ROMS's and DVD's, and that's after I threw some of it away; and still I hunt free porn sites and p2p-programs for more...
		- This Troper has almost 12GB of porn of himself.
		- This Troper has roughly 45 gigs spread across three computers (for contingency measures) and slowly growing larger (most of it is doujinshi).
		- Practically less than half of a 500Gb external hard drive...and growing. And this is less than a year's sampling.
		- Am I the only one who finds this bit of the article really, really sad?
		- Personally, I find it strangely arousing.
		- This Troper has only about two and a half gigs of porn. Stored quite visibly on a shelf above my desk. Only problem is good luck accessing it without the proper equipment. The "proper equipment" being a spare nine-track tape drive that can read 6250 bpi coded tapes. Currently set up with ten tapes of 3600 foot length, each holding about 262MB of porn each. The tape drive I own is a rescued Kennedy 9612; average access time to an image, video, or text is usually slightly less then ten minutes. Tapes are blocked with a block sized 32K, so I get the maximal amount of data on the tape. The data is also tightly compressed and nicely encrypted. Therefore, even though the stash is tiny, it is one of the most secure against snoops; especially against the common snoop, because unless the person knows how to mount the tapes, and start the drive reading, and happens to be lucky enough to pull one of the porn tapes; all he or she will get are a TXT that explains what the "software" on the tape is and the proper installation techniques, as well as the slightly less then 262MB <softwarename>.TAP file.
		- Would any one guess that "RSX-11/M+ Modofied COBOL (Revision C) PATCH 3 Installation Tape 2 of 3" and "PDP-12 Standalone FORTRAN IV Single User Programing System - System Generation Tape 3 of 5" contain a large amount of furry porn?
	+ This troper thinks you all sound a little too proud of the size of your porn stash.
		- That being said, his stash blows all of yours out of the water. It's called the internet, people! I've got google and I know how to use it!
		- This. This troper has only 3 items of porn on his computer: Fate Stay Night, Tsukihime, and Kagetsu Tohya. And do those really count?
		- This troper used to be quite ashamed of the fact he has about 35 gigs of porn (mostly videos) on his laptop. It was nothing squicky (mostly consenting adults doing quite ordinary things to each other, as well as some very light bondage), but I always thought it was too much. After reading this article, I'm okay with it. But I need to cut down, I acknowledge that.
	+ So... Where do you people actually find the time to watch all that porn?
		- This Troper recently got a new (refurbished, but just as awesome) computer for his birthday last month that has, among other specs, a 1 terrabyte harddrive. That's alot of porn that can stashed on that monster. Care to guess what one of the few things that was transfered over to the new computer? Also, This Troper has his stash in a folder titled 4chan (since most of the porn hentai/ecchi was gotten from /e/ and either /h/ or /d/) thats in a subfolder titled pictures, which is in the Sample Pictures folder that comes on any comptuer. Then the 4chan folder splits into a clusterfuck of confusion as I'm too lazy to organize it. But before I deleted it (due Norton blocking a bloodhound.13 expoilt or something, after I moved it to the Counter-Strike: Source backup folder in Steam) it was about 500-600 mgbs. That didn't even put a dent in the overall memory on the new comptuer when it was transfered over, but give it about a month and the new porn stash will be just as big if not bigger (no pun inteneded) then it used to be.
		- All the sizescompetition... this troper has 8 mb of porn, hidden in his cellphone.
* When this troper was a tween and didn't even know it was called "masturbation", her dad caught her reading a more-or-less furry multiboob partial-TG story. She was just reading, and it wasn't particularly explicit - areolas(sp) being pinched, unrealistically bouncy breasts - but apparently he was very conservative about these things... she is very glad it has never come up again. Because she became paranoid enough to never bookmark these things directly or save them to her hard drive.
* Just in case her friends get a bit... snoop-y, this troper keeps a folder in a semi-secluded but accessible location on her hard-drive labeled "Prawn." Said troper's friends are just Genre Savvy enough to assume she's using the Internet definition of "Pr0n," but said folder is actually full of... pictures of prawns.
	+ I am off to Google image search right now to implement this. I would like to award you an internet.
		- Though people might wonder why you have three hundred pictures of Prawns on your computer...
		- Food porn?
		- It might imply a desire to birth shrimp. (Probably work safe, but not mind safe...)
	+ This Troper did the same sort of thing using paint to write messages insulting anyone who were to access the files of being snooping douchebags. He also had a picture of an anime girl with a sweatdrop on her head labeled "Hot Anime Girl". His real porn was on a different profile.
* This troper keeps his porn stash on a detachable hard drive, with his anime and music. His computer was stolen two months ago by someone with no understanding of what the drive was, so despite having a new laptop, his stash lives on.
	+ Well, it could be that they just didn't need an extra drive.
* Technologically illiterate parents, a messy file-system, a folder tucked neatly away with a fairly innocuous name in the main folder where my torrents direct, and a password-locked user account. Not ironclad, but as long as I remember to lock the system whenever I leave my room, I'd bet money that they're not clever enough to bypass the password. At least if they do, I'm 20 years old and only live at home during the summer.
* Having a very messy Windows directory, technologically illiterate parents, and the ability to encrypt a WinRAR archive, were all very helpful to have a good time late in the night... If You Know What I Mean. Nowadays, however, I do the same, but with a key drive hidden in a safe box in my locked secret stuff drawer, which just happens to hide an adult magazine as well...
* This troper, at age 8, found her father's Playboy stash... and passed said magazines around to the four or five 8 year old boys who were attending her birthday party. Needless to say, Dad thought it was hilarious, Mom was not pleased.
* To prevent awkwardness over the single shared computer, this troper does not keep porn on the computer for more than a day or two. Most of his porn consumption occurs over the internet.
	+ That said, The troper's mother found exactly ONE pornographic picture on the computer, which this troper neither saved, remembered looking at, or was particularly into. The conversation with this troper's Father basically amounted to "Jesus, boy. Hide your porn better."
		- In his younger years this troper had a similar incident occur but there wasn't a conversation. I just found a sticky note on the family computer screen while it hibernated saying "If I ever find stuff like this again you'll lose privileges you never knew you had." I now have my own computer and a small collection of "select images" which are not hidden and in fact sorted by their source and theme.
* This troper's childhood was full of porn stashes. I hid my porn. My little brother did not. This did not stop me getting caught (although less often than my little brother), as my parents continued to become more savvy at searching the computer. At one point, an attended virus scanner caught me. Actually, I got caught a lot, despite my best efforts, which means either I sucked at hiding my porn or my parents were very good at finding it. These days, I have no porn on my computer, but that's mostly because after a while it became an addiction, but I'll stop there.
	+ this sounds like me... well except for the little brother's porn stashes
* Subverted by this troper, who, despite being male and 20, is also almost-but-not-quite asexual, and gets his "needs" satisfied by one or two nights of internet surfing per quarter year.
	+ Isn't it supposed to be good for you to whack off a couple of times a week for your prostate? I, as a fellow almost-but-not-quite asexual, would up that for your health
		- Only twice a week?
		- Every other night here. And even if it's just yourself, there's gonna be nights when you'd rather just sleep/snuggle.
		- Not me. I need it to get to sleep. Actually, I do it way too much. Like five times a day. I should cut back.
		- This troper's boyfriend feely admits to doing so up to five times a day when she's not around to help him out wih those urges.
		- Twice a day is more rule than exception for this troper, at least on days when he is free. He has read somewhere that people in the 20-30 year old bracket can lower the risk of testicle cancer by producing 5 orgasms a week, so he feels justified. However, he is working on cutting back.
		- What the... This troper does it seven times a week (I make up if I miss one) and think that's too much...
		- I do it 7 times a day. Now, that's a point where I need to cut back on the porn.
		- Honestly, this troper just does it when he's bored. This troper really needs to get a better hobby.
		- Shit, I though that's what it was in the first place.
* This troper had around 30gb worth of hentai as a result of telling a girl, "Actually, I don't have any" while leeching anime from her hard drive. Not wanting to destroy such an epic collection, he passed it on to a friend. Said friend hid said porn in another friend's anime collection. Apparently said other friend did not appreciate clicking on Azumanga Daioh and finding La Blue Girl.
* This troper opts for mostly just semi-nudes, in a folder buried among her other folders, with an innocuous name. She knows full-well that her boyfriend has a 'Private; Do not click' folder in plain sight on his computer, and that it is empty, because he prefers that snoopers go to the obvious spot first. No, she didn't snoop. He told her so.
* This troper doesn't keep porn, but in his childhood, he once found his father's porn stash hidden inside the cab of the truck he drove for a living. After asking him what they were, his father moved the stash - which the troper proceeded to find not months later, clear as day in the bottom drawer of his bedside chest of drawers. The final time this troper saw them was in the rubbish bin. Guess someone else found them...
* This troper is not particularly into porn, but she enjoys DiD websites that are non-sexual in nature. (It's not a fetish, more of an odd non-sexual interest. Don't know how to explain it...) Nonetheless, she figures her parents would freak, so she carefully cleanses her internet history, never leaving any chance that her mom or dad, both of whom occasionally use her computer, could find the websites she visits. She learned from her brother's example; when her mother went on his computer a couple of years ago, she wasn't snooping, but opened his internet history to see if she could find an eBay auction he had told her about and found a whole bunch of gay porn websites. This was before this troper's brother had outed himself to our parents, but after he outed himself to me. So Yeah...
* This troper's friend had a particularly hilarious experience with this. He was hiding his porn in his dad's clutter, and his dad was hiding his own porn in my friend's room under the mattress. As luck would have it, his mom found both of their stashes on the same day.
* This troper had a folder clearly labeled 'Porn' on the computer, 8GB of lesbian hentai and erotica. And then one day he got bored and deleted it. The only person to ever see the folder was his girlfriend, and that's because she into the same kind of stuff. Everyone else believed the troper's "That's just a decoy, the real stuff is encrypted" explanation. Said troper's cousin just lumps all the porn in a randomly labeled folder stored somewhere in the recycle bin.
* This troper's porn/hentai directory is "F:\manga\pool's closed" (F: being his external hard drive), named after the slogan for a series of raids on a certain website by 4chan. It has over 20 GB of stuff and takes up more space than his non-hentai manga. And then there's the porn that his parents occasionally put on a high shelf in the bathroom.
* This troper has run into it from both ends of the spectrum. First, when I was young and foolish, the bit of porn I did download was nested about three folders deep in my profile's My Pictures directory. At the time (in my defence, more than 11 years ago) I did not know how the My Pictures Slideshow screensaver worked. That stash went bye-bye quickly. Since then, I've been using a nested folder deep, deep in C. Now that I live on my own, the folder stays there for old times sake. On the other side of the spectrum, I work as tech support now, taking remote access to someone's box to fix whatever is broken on it. I have lost count of the number of times I remoted into some guys comp (and in one case, some gal's comp) and was presented with rather explicit images of one or more girls in very little. In one case, a middle-aged schoolmarm asked me in all seriousness if I could recommend any porn sites she could go to that wouldn't have viruses to mess up her computer again. I tried to evade the question, still, my supervisor had a long, unhappy talk with me after that one.
* This troper's hentai stash is in: C/Pictures/Obviouslynothentai/seriously/notjoking/yesitis. I haven't been found out yet.
	+ Is it a shared computer?
* This troper has the following: a "Music Video" folder, for the obvious things, inside that: "not videos" (hidden, has stories and fanfic work), "other" (hidden in non-animated), and then 3 folders within "other": Prawn, NSFS, and NSFW. Prawn has pictures of prawns (thanks to the troper far above me), NSFW has a picture of a Jedi captioned with "That's what YOU think", and NSFS (Not Safe For Sanity) has pictures from shock sites. So far, nobody has found my actual stash (what, you thought I'd put the location of THAT on the net?).
	+ Why not? No one knows who you are and furthermore, none of us care what is on your desktop much, much less have easy access to it.
		- Judging by how tricky he is, it's in a hidden folder inside a folder marked "porn" on his portable hard drive. The only thing in the hidden folder in the porn folder is a cleverly written program disguised as a virus, which would get deleted by most virus scanners but would be "accidentally" activated by a certain virus scanner downloadable online. When the program is run, it would require a specific 42 key password and then take him to a website that has a complex series of branching links and throwaway passwords, eventually leading to a single link entitled "The real, final Link." This would then give you the exact name and passwords of a folder hidden, buried a few hundred files deep, encrypted, password protected in multiple languages per password. If you got this far without losing your sanity, you would be rewarded to one picture of Link from The Legend Of Zelda. What? You didn't really think I would reveal where somebody hid their porn stash, did you?
		- ...you win, dammit.
		- Obviously, the above troper watches all of their porn on a miniature TV stored in a potato chip bag.
		- YOU SIR WIN AN INTERNET.
		- Adding on to the fourth troper above me, if you go that far, you must also leave the doorknob to your bedroom at a certain angle and put a piece of paper in the paper in the doorframe so that when the door is opened, the paper falls out and when the door is shut again, the doorknob isn't in the right spot, when in actuallity, all this was just a ruse when the real indicator that someone was in your room was a piece of lead you had sitting on the hinge of the door that broke when the door was opened. If you do all of that, then I tip my hat to you good sir/madam. And you most defienetly win an Internet.
* This troper has a maze of folders on his desktop, which lead to a file marked "Norp." Of course, norp is porn proN spelled backwards. Inside it is... a link to a screamer video. My real porn stash is in the one place no one would look: THE TRASHCAN.
* This troper's stash is kept in a folder that is directly on his desktop. Of course, said folder has 26 sub-folders in it, each one named after a letter of the alphabet, with each one of those sub-folders containing 26 sub-sub-folders, and so on. In order to access certain things, he sets it up like a password system, with g/a/m/e/s/ taking him to his stash of questionably-acquired game files, and with his porn in a special folder. Of course, anticipating that someone would try looking up p/o/r/n/, he put a single text file in that folder which simply says "What exactly were you looking for, you pervert?". He hasn't been caught yet.
	+ I hereby take the Internet awarded to me for my "Prawn" folder and give it to you. That is fantastically clever and I want to steal it.
	+ This troper would just run "du -sm \*" on the top-level folder, and look in the largest sub-folder. "find . -iname '\*.jpg'" should also turn up some interesting results. Complex folder hierarchies are only secure against people who don't know how to navigate them.
		- Well, I also tend to keep EVERYTHING in there. That includes my standard videos, legally-acquired games, personal music, photos, etc. I just put in a different code for each, making that kind of search rather problematic for the searcher. Of course, given the fact that most of my colleagues and family couldn't figure that kind of thing out does make it nothing more than paranoia, but it's still fun.
		- I'd just (assuming this is Windows) right-click on the folder, click "explore", and go down clicking all the plus signs. Then I can see the hierarchy.
		- See the hierarchy? With just 4 letters, there are 456,976 different folders. Good luck. (This troper plans to implement the above system ASAP.)
		- I call BS on this entire setup. Assuming he keeps up the 26 and 26 thing, even for totally stupid combinations, all the way up to 6 letters (assuming he doesn't have anything longer than that), he would have set up 26^6 files. With simple math, 20^6 is 64 million files to set up. There is no way anybody would have the time to set up that many files.
		- No reason to make them all individually. 1)Create 26 folders named A-Z. 2)Copy and paste this set of folders into n different places, call it six, giving you Set 1, Set 2, etc. 3)Copy Set 1 and paste it into every folder in Set 2, then copy Set 2 and paste it into every folder in Set 3, and so on. Keep the final set and delete the others.
		- With basic programming skills, the whole thing could be set up in a couple of minutes. Doesn't change the fact that anyone with a semi-decent understanding of Windows Explorer could navigate to whatever folder they wanted with ease. A \*.\* search would reveal all the "passwords". Alternatively, bringing up the Properties of folders would distinguish dead ends.
		- This Troper (normally i'd say who i am, but not here...) uses a lighter version of the above as a "Just in case" measure. Noone but him touches his computer (the other person in the house has a laptop), but i'm just being paranoid. SECRET: The code is 'DELTA'. and i don't have any porn in there yet. I don't save it...Yet.
		- Original Troper used / to separate his folder names. Windows uses \, so I assume he is running \*nix (Linux, Unix). It would not be difficult to write a script to create all those folders, and the proficiency to write such scripts is more common in \*nix users than Windows users.
	+ I'd just like to thank the person who shared this system, as it gave me the inspiration for my own, less elaborate security system for his pornography.
	+ An idea for improvement: continue to sequence so that once you get to the appropriate folder, you have to go on with the appropriate filename.
* This troper follows the Linus Torvalds philosophy of backups, and stores his porn in a Usenet newsgroup. This has the benefits of 1) not being on his computer, and 2) being accessible from anywhere in the world.
	+ By anyone in the newsgroup.
* This troper moved in with some friends after their housemate died in a traffic accident, and took up residence in the same bedroom. A few weeks after moving in, I finally got around to going through the boxes that his family hadn't taken (either missing them in their grief or decided to leave) in order to free up closet space. In the very back of the walk-in closet, I found his stash of porn hidden behind a box of neckties. I opened the box, and laid eyes upon the magazine resting on top. To this day, I can't even THINK of the word "Plumpers" without breaking out into a huge grin at best, hysterical laughter at worst.
* This troper has Google Photos Screensaver display the entire stash as a slideshow all the time, and just doesn't let anyone who wouldn't understand into the house. So there.
* This troper keeps no porn on the computer, instead having memorised UR Ls to multiple daily-updated sites, and one massive archive.
	+ This troper's actual "stash" is similar, mostly because her family uses her computer periodically, and she wants them to still respect her. She also has a couple Favorites in her DeviantArt account which... Well, looking at them should make them patently apparent why they're her favorites. Perverse Sexual Lust + Dark Link + Rule Thirty Four = Mmmmmm.
	+ This troper is much the same way. He has memorized UR Ls to several daily-updated sites for his porn needs, all of which have hentai clips in addition to the regular stuff.
* This troper once made the mistake of taking a shower after her brother, and found a crumpled up lingerie ad from mom's catalogues in the shower. Ew.
* This troper has a big bag of porn in his closet, mostly nudes or semi-nudes (hardcore has men in it, so it squicks me)... he doesn't go to quite as much effort to hide porn on his computer, though it's all in a directory labeled "My Games", and the directory actually contains games. Nobody's snooped there... yet.
* This troper writes erotic stories with subject matter that would make even 4chan uncomfortable. Now, this laptop is technically mine alone, but sometimes other people need to use it. So, I created a Photoshop document, opened it up as a text file, scrolled down, and keep the stuff I write between two lines of code way down in the middle. Anyone who opens it in the "recent documents" menu sees the code and figures it was a Photoshop file I just opened in a word program by accident.
	+ Is that a win?
	+ 'make even 4chan uncomfortable'? I somehow doubt it. Unless it is furry. Furry = DO NOT WANT.
		- Oh, HI! I guess you should start backing away now.
* This troper was not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer when he was younger, and discovered the glories of hentai on the computers at his junior high school, when he didn't know what the browser's "history" was. Several years, one in-school suspension, and many angry and embarrassed confrontations with his parents later, he finally got the 'rents to get off his case and adopt a "don't ask don't tell" policy in regards to his hentai collection, which is now stored in plain sight in a folder on his desktop. He still hasn't forgiven them for thinking he couldn't tell the difference between tentacle rapeand "good" sex, though.
* This troper's ex boss left Harry Potter hard core Slash Fic lying around his desk at work. This might have passed unnoticed except that he left it where he usually kept information we needed to do our job...
* This troper simply streams/Googles all his porn. He does however keep something on his computer to put off would be snoopers (an early and much shorter "prototype" version of which can be seen here◊).
	+ You really deserve an internet. Who has one, because I can't seem to find mine.
* This troper keeps all her porn on SD memory cards.
* People, there is the internet now. No more need for keeping it on your person (or computer)! Of course, the bookmarks must be appropriately buried and whatnot. If you have good memory, more power to you!
	+ And what happens when we lose internet for an extended period of time?
		- Use your imagination, and I mean that literally. That's what I did when my college's internet went down for a few weeks.
	+ Or what if we don't like having to wait half an hour before we can watch all of a streaming video? Or what if sites like You Porn delete some of our favourite videos? Or what if we prefer H-games to ordinary porn vids?
* This troper programs, so obviously there'll be a lot of not-working random files on his computer, and therefore hides everything as zip files using the \*.exe extension, in his programming works folder. It won't hold up to serious cracking but I figure if someone wants my porn stash so bad they can have it. I have my calculus and C++ notes among other things saved in an easily accessible "porn" folder, though. I wonder what someone will think if they run into THAT?
	+ Either that you get off to numbers, or you are going to be the least threatening guy they ever met. And then when they find out you want to tentacle rape them, well, it's already too late...
* This troper used to hide his stash in a slew of folders within folders. After some angry questioning by his mother over a picture of a topless woman he accidentally set as the background (and didn't properly delete), he decided to exterminate those folders. Now he's memorized some working sites, and just watches it on his Nintendo Wii. (So much for being family friendly eh?)
* C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Random crap\Other PokÃ¯Â¿Â½mon Crap\DP stuff\old junk\A New Folder. It's a hidden folder, and would most likely be easy to find if anyone paid attention to the massive file size of what should be a small and obscure folder. When I was younger, I used to have all my stuff hidden in a "Lost Woods". The folders were named things like "go left, go straight, go right", and they were set up exactly like the Lost Woods in Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The porn was hidden not at the Sacred Meadow, but rather the place with the small hole and all the Deku Scrubs that give you stuff if you wear a certain mask.
	+ What happened if you entered "Twenty-Three is Number One?"
		- Goatse, maybe?
	+ If that was meant to be a Stealth Pun indicative of what you would find in said folder, good troper, you deserve an internet.
* This troper has a relative she will not identify out of courtesy. One day her loo decided it didn't like her anymore and quit working. She had to use other toilets throughout the house — and in some kind of cruel conspiracy, they either hurt to sit on, clogged up, or were located in a place so filthy she wouldn't throw a corpse in there. The only commode left was this relative's. While in that bathroom, she discovered, much to her dismay, that her relative had many issues of Playboy in a rack directly in front of the toilet. She had to attend middle school with immature assmonkeys at the time (thanks for turning me off to sex, bastards!), so the only thing that stopped her from being squicked into the void was that said relative didn't look at them anymore. (The only thing preventing her from reading them thoroughly was opening one to a REALLY bad joke...)
* This troper no longer keeps a porn stash due to finding out one day that my mother uses this computer to check her email... and on my homework progress. Only my closest friends and the entire internet can know my preference for, eh "Big Beautiful Women"
	+ You are this Troper's favorite Troper now.
* This troper did not own a Porn Stash. Not at all. I knew where my older brother kept his. I "borrowed" it when he wasn't home occasionally, making sure everything was exactly where it was when I left it. Even if it did get found, it wasn't mine, so I'd only be in trouble if I was caught red-handed with it (or would it be white-handed?), which never happened.
	+ This Troper also used to do that, until his brother developed a very disturbing [3]...
* This Troper has a folder named 'Twilight/Edward Cullen Pics'. Needless to say, no Twilight pictures are kept in this folder.
* Radioactive Zombie has a semi-porn folder - it contains RS'd Marvel/DC comics and yuri doujinshis. And softcore stuff, meaning no penetration or sweaty man-ass. And it's sitting on his desktop, simply marked "New Folder". No one's clicked on it yet.
* As a kid, This Troper found, not only his step-dads stash, but also his best friend's stash. Today, This Troper has one magazine in the bottom of a box full of other magazines (good luck finding it, seeing there are about four or five boxes of completely innocent print publications. What can I say? Obsessive behaviour) As for the computer, older brother has seen the stash, including its oddities (robots, tentacles, furry, futanari, though no yaoi... back then). Now a bit more paranoid about it, due to the yaoi folder, and shirtless photos (and then some) of This Troper...
* This Troper has the "Necronomicon"... an external hard drive where he would keep everything but the operating system if he didn't use his computers on a daily basis. Due to doing various other things (such as having parts of it on the computers themselves) he's never gotten around to finishing this archival and categorization, but he's had at one point everything from hentai (anime or doujin) to "Western art" style to live action to photographs to fetishes galore (although he does have limits) to anti-childhood Nightmare Fuel to... well, I can't even put it into words.
* Inverted in this troper's case. This troper does not have a porn stash, but he came home from high school one day to find his father on his (This troper's) computer looking at porn. His father's not technically minded so got a bunch of junk with it as well as left a trace to prove he's done it before. Let's just say this germophobic troper went through some sanitizer that day.
	+ Any reason you don't have a password?
* This troper stored her doujinshi on her external hard drive. Her brother used it for fifteen minutes to transfer a large file from one computer to another. Troper assumed said brother would be cool with the stash, assuming he even bothered to look. Apparently not, as it's all been deleted. Rotten bastard.
* After years of covering his tracks (only to finally become less paranoid and burn his favourite porn on DVDs) this troper has become quite able at finding hidden porn on other computers or porn people thought they got rid of. Found dad's stash. Icky... not the content, but just because it's dad. Also found best friend's stash, that was a conversation starter.
* This troper got a Very Serious Talking To from her father at the age of about thirteen when he caught her on a furry cybersex forum. Just reading, not posting, and more out of sheer curiosity than anything else, but he was of course convinced she was being groomed. These days, she just keeps a list of video ID numbers (think the codes at the end of YouTube URLs) for her favourite site.
* This troper hides his computer's stash by changing the file extensions from .avi or .jpg or the like to .cpp (he's a programmer) and putting them just plain onto his C: drive. He also usually gives them a harmless-looking but Meaningful Name or a name that has Fun With Acronyms . He sometimes does this to normal files elsewhere just for fun, of course.
* This troper hides his stash with the simple expedient of creating a "Legal" folder in one of his less-used Program Files folders, making all of the contents hidden, but the folder not. Also, has implemented several of the decoy strategies on this page (Thanks!)
* This troper doesn't have a stash (why bother when there's the internet?), but once discovered his housemate's in their "my pictures" folder. No attempt to hide it whatsoever. Having a very conservative third housemate, he naturally set it as the screensaver.
* This troper does not put porn on his computer. But I do use 3 different browsers, IE7 is for porn, Opera is for normal stuff and Chrome is the default. Also, there is a password protected file (in a different format from most of my stuff) hidden in program files with an innocent sounding name that contains ... stuff.
	+ I'm similar. Chrome's for porn, Firefox is default, and IE 7 is for school.
		- Just out of interest, how do you get Chrome to play videos? (on mine says that it needs a flash plugging that doesn't seem to exist)
	+ A bit different for me. IE7 is NEVER used due to suckiness, Firefox is for normal and is the default, and Opera is for porn because I have a horrible memory and constantly look through it's history to find stuff.
* I'm new in the field of porn stashing, so my collection's small.
* This troper uses encryption software. My stash will never be found.
* This Troper does not keep any porn pictures or movies on his computer (and always deletes his history on his other browser that nobody knows he uses anymore), but does have a nice stash of erotic Flash games (Mostly provided by 4chan's /f/ board) buried inside a file for my Golden Sun ROM, which is in turn placed in a folder with all my RO Ms and emulator stuff, which is in My Documents (Why Golden Sun? The name of the ROM is alphanumerically first.). Nobody's found it, though nobody has really been looking for it. (I also have all the file locations bookmarked in my alternate browser, because that's a lot easier than digging though all that to find one flash). Also, in a non-Porn case, I have a large collection of anime and video game fanart (mostly of women), some of which is a little suggestive buried in My Pictures, then in the collection of sprites I have on my computer to use as a base for spriting. Also, I changed the icon of the folder so it appears instead as the Windows icon for turning off your computer. Also, if that is found, inside it I have the obligatory fake chain of files that leads no where (several of which are names witty things like "pr0n" and "hentai"), and while it doesn't have anything really funny at the end, there are a couple cases where if you click to fast, you'll end up looping as I placed shortcuts back to earlier files in it.
* This troper only keep very... personal stuff stored on his computer, the sort that is not on the internet, ever. It's not hidden, but is well encrypted and ambiguously named.
	+ Underage self pics?
		- Uh, sorta. Not underage, and not of me.
		- So... they're overaged pics of people who aren't you, but they're personal. I'm guessing you have a video of your parents doing it. Am I right?
* This troper puts it in a box in the closet. The thing is, there are three other boxes filled with things I eventually mean to turn into multimedia art. I just toss some of them more innocent stuff in the top of the box and no one ever thinks to look.
* Subverted with this troper. I have a folder titled "GAY PORN". It's where I put all of my homework.
* This troper has computer illiterate relatives and manages just fine with G:/4chan (which has just generic "internet" pics, some of which are naughty), G:/My Downloads/Torrents (for any big stuff that gets downloaded), G:/My Downloads/extra (for regular boring real person porn) and G:/My Downloads/Shota for the hentai. And doesn't much care who knows.
	+ Then again, when friends come over and are expected to use the computer, he begins sneakily hiding it in strange locales and planting misleading folders throughout the system, with the end result being fruitless as they only use the computer to play Grand Theft Auto and then it takes days to get it all sorted out afterwards...
* This troper actually hides it IN PLAIN SIGHT for anyone curious enough to look (nobody cares enough to) which alarms all his friends who basically jump through hoops to hide it as carefully as possible. Also, one of my friends calls her porn stash "The Super Secret Slash Stash" Failing to find a name with the same amount of Added Alliterative Appeal, so I settled for "Big Honkin' Collection" said really fast (aka bigonkincollection) My bookmarks, however, are either in a folder conveniently labeled something inconspicuous.
	+ The bookmark folder is "Something Inconspicuous"?
		- Haha, I wish I'd thought of that. It's actually literally labeled "Stuff" (not kidding).
		- Hey, that's what I named the folder for my porn images. The games are in the "other stuff" folder.
		- lol Same here, i keep mine on a memory stick thing too, so i doubt anyone's gonna find it
* This troper experimented with ways of hiding his porn stash using hidden folders. His research has found having a hidden folder on the desktop as the best method. Hiding them in program files folders, windows folders, faux windows folders, some obscure place, or hidden with many innocent files are also great. Especially a prawn folder.
* This troper has a decoy folder called "Not Pornography" which contains several more folders inside of each other. In the last folder, there is just a batch file that when opened, runs a script which causes an endless loop of "I TOLD YOU IT'S NOT PORNOGRAPHY!" to appear on the screen. My real stash is scattered in a folder called "Crap" amid masses of what is indeed, stuff nobody sane would care about.
* This Troper has cleverly hidden his downloaded materials (mostly lesbian) in the My Videos folder, due to his parents a) not being tech-savvy enough to go looking for it, b) never using my computer anyway, and c) being understanding enough that they wouldn't care if they knew.
* This troper's introduction to porn was due to her brother's porn stash on the family computer, at age 11. It's all gone now (parents found it and deleted it), but she still remembers it well. Learning that lesson, she has taken a different tact in hiding her porn. No one really notices the mountains of fictionshe has saved or written, and she has memorized two different porn websites so she can go look there.
* This troper just had an "inappropriate" folder in his documents, a password-protected Windows account on a computer he administrates, and a habit of hitting Windows + L when leaving his computer. But since he had to "purify" it to have Linux installed on it, it's all stored in an easily-concealed USB flash drive now.
* This troper has a very large stash of pictures (all gotten for free), along with a set of videos and porn stories, all hidden in various folders in C:\Documents. In other words, all in the folders where nobody would have a need to look. After his mother started snooping around everything, he then put them in a passworded RAR folder that she's unable to access or remove without knowing the password.
* I once thought of creating a maze of folders to hide stuff in, but I wouldn't need to because I have nothing to hide, and I wouldn't be able to because I know nothing about computers.
* This troper's "Porn" folder in her external hard drive is filled with Space Porn. Like, photos of galaxies and stars. You tell me that spiral galaxies aren't sexy.
	+ Theirs are the globular clusters that will bust through the heavens!
	+ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
	+ Lots of hawt amateur astro pix, eh?
* All I have is a lone rule 34 pic labeled "Sarah34"... in my "my pictures" folder. (The screensaver runs through my remix comics, so no accidental discovery here) Guess who it's about, and guess how long it's been there.
* This troper has his porn clearly marked as Porn within his personal folder. He has found evidence of his mothers snooping into it though she's never said anything. She's more interested in hiding her own porn! And if what I've found in the browser history is anything to go by I'm a prude in comparison (and I'm into just about everything).
* This troper has a series of folders called "DO NOT OPEN" and similar things that eventually lead to a folder called "secret porn folder", which contains several decoy files that all basically say 'why are you looking through my stuff?'
* This troper has had to fix his (female) friends' computers. He has no problem doing this, but admits to being a little curious and noting that hiding his own folders has made him rather skilled at finding others'. Tips include:
	+ Using the Search feature to search the hard drive for all video files;
	+ Browsing recent or temporary files;
	+ Looking in all "New Folder"s and examining "Untitled"s.
	+ (As a side note, when admitting this to one of his friends, she taunted that he didn't find it all)
		- These don't work on this troper. My largest stash of pics is my XKCD collection. My largest stash of videos is clips from movies. And my largest stash of stories is a shitload of e-books. Also, after... ahem... I open a lot of random stuff, like a script for a movie I'm writing, and a lot of RHCP songs.
* This troper, after reading this page, decided to be more diligent with hiding my stash (fairly normal, aside from some hentai.). So...
	1. I made a "Prawn" folder, which also includes a crawdaddy and a lobster knife fight.
	2. Created decoy, incredibly in-depth folders for his normal pictures,(ex: Robots-Cool Robots-Humanoid Cool Robots- Humanoid Cool Robots with guns. And then there's non-humanoid, boxy robots with similar, branching folders. And then I have 10 different subject folders which all branch into these.) as well as one that says New Folder on his desktop with random pictures from the internet(cheese, pie, lolcats, smurfs, Marx's grave, etc.)
	3. Hid his real prawn in his "games" folder, in a side folder entitled "Age of Empires 2 install document".
* My hentai and random porn folder is located in My Pictures labeled "Snapshot". There's pics scattered around folders in My Documents due to laziness and other pics simply in My Pictures because they're funny or was planning to use them for Rule 34. Nobody has called me out for my porn yet which is actually quite lucky now that I think about it.
* This troper just put all of her innocuous documents in one of the generic folders that nobody ever actually uses (one of those sub-"My Documents" folders with names like "My Spreadsheets" or "My Albums"). It's been mostly safe.
* This troper's porn is located in My Documents, in a folder labeled Porn, neatly organized by type. the password to enter that user profile, however, is 20 characters long and entirely random to everyone except me - anyone who wants to use my laptop has to use the Guest profile.
* Internet bookmarks? Technically out in the open in a (non-visible) toolbar. Hentai doujin? Listed under the category of "Other." In fact, the only thing that's really obvious (all the yaoi) isn't really porn. ...okay, okay, so the single DVD set needs to be hidden better (now that I've finally found it again...).
* This asexual troper is not interested in porn at all. She does however have a folder labelled "porn". It contains research notes for her university course.
* This Troper was once young and foolish. After a number of years of playboys and being irresponsible with C Ds, he stores his porn on his external hard drive, in a folder labeled Random next to his pirated Sourcebooks. No one in my family has found them, and I hope it stays that way.
* To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever found one of my porn stashes that I didn't leave out in plain site; it's an open secret I tend to have a revolving door supply of it, unless it's stuff I created myself, in which case I keep it forever (also an open secret.) However, I have many, many, many times come across my parents porn stashes, and came to some awkward conclusions from the stacks of swinger magazines, some of which had personal ads highlighted.
* As an avid player of spore, this troper keeps his stash in well distributed throughout random civilization construction folders. No one has found it yet.
	+ Excellent choice, this troper used the same trick but with Neverwinter Nights 2 folders.
		- This troper would have hid his stash in Spore, but his only sibling plays it from time to time. Not worth the risk of giving him a copy of my spore creations folder and accidentally sending the "goods" along with it.
* This troper doesn't have anything really pornographic, just some nudes stashed in a folder on his computer in another folder where he sticks his Art homework. It looks legitimate enough as a collection of art nudes.
* This Troper is too paranoid to actually keep porn on his computer, he does have several folders around to screw with anyone who snoops on his hard drive: The "Porn" folder contains a text file that says "Did you actually think I would keep porn here?", the "Not Porn" folder has a text file saying "What did you expect to find here?", and of course he had to steal the above mentioned prawn folder idea.
* This gay troper's ex had the most hilarious Coming Out Story. His parents were away and he was...having some alone time in the living room, when they came back sooner than expected. He quickly turns off the VCR and goes into his bedroom, but forgot that they were recording a TV show before leaving. They turn on the VCR and...
* This troper doesn't keep normal porn around since it doesn't really do much for him; it's easy enough to get turned on without it (especially if you know sleep and snuggling with your Companion Cube will follow :D), video porn in particular is a rich source of Narm, and he digs stories more anyway since they leave more to the imagination — as you can probably tell, I <3 my imagination). That said, I've seen things in other people's porn stashes that squicked me to no end, more because of the people they belonged to than the actual content; I did not need to know that my coworker was into granny porn, or that my grandfather had a hardcore gay porn stash, kthx! \*runs off to scrub brain\*
	+ [[Felius This Troper]] REALLY did not need to know about your grandfather porn stash either. \*runs to the brain bleach dispenser as well\*
* This troper keeps all the porn on his computer in one place his significant other will never look: the World Of Warcraft folder in a subfolder called "readme".
* This troper brought his laptop to a party on the mistaken impression that everyone would have theirs. While I was playing 007 Goldeneye, a friend and his girlfriend asked if they could use my computer to look for something, and I said sure. Midway through the match, he said, "Dude, you should probably turn off the autocomplete on Google." My reaction? Without looking away from the screen, I said "yeah, I probably should." Once the match was over I took my laptop back. They were looking at completely SFW pictures of horses, though one window was for a fetish site I had never even heard of, which I concluded had come from a link on a fetish site I do frequent.
* This troper has a folder named "secret" in "my video files". Inside is this lovely video with the file name "porn".
* When this troper was still living with his parents, he stored his in c:/dos/utils . He then went on to burn C Ds and label them in Esperanto. Nowadays he stores it in c:/New Folder for no reason other than sheer laziness, and labels his C Ds "Porn" and "More Porn."
	+ Similarly, this troper used to go to the usual efforts to keep his stash hidden in numerous layers of folders when living with his highly religious mother and sister. Then he moved in with his gay father and his two roommates, ended up saying "Screw it" since he knew no-one in his new household would ever care, and now just has a separate 120gb hard drive entirely dedicated to his stash in open view.
* This troper had an awkward moment — as the most (and only) tech-savvy member of her family, when her younger sister needed a problem on her computer looked at, this troper accidentally discovered that she is apparently not the only lesbian in her family, if her sister's taste in porn is anything to go by. The awkwardness came from this troper not being ready to acknowledge that her sister has hit... that age.
* The internet is for PRAWNS!
* Judging by the above entries, This Troper is apparently the only person on the entire internet who doesn't keep porn on his computer. Nonetheless, he was just embroiled in a Death Note-caliber bluff-calling match with his mother, who did not know this. Perp Sweating techniques were used. Bombastic classical music played in heads. This Troper nearly collapsed laughing when Mom finally opened the folder she'd been threatening to open and found... a picture of a prawn, captioned "Screw you, Ma." This Troper is going to go eat the shit out of a peanut butter sandwich now.
	+ You kind sir, win an Internets.
* This troper has a folder full of Sims 2 downloads - not the downloads folder in EA Games, the one where he saves the zip files before unzipping them into the right place. One folder within this honking great folder is somewhat larger than the rest...
* This Troper remembers a bash quote about a son whose mother had found his stash. When his father asked, "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" he replied with the complete path to his dad's stash on the family computer.
* In the time I had to share my computer with relatives, I hid my stash in an encrypted rar in an alternate data stream of a .NET-hidden file (not accessible through the explorer) somewhere in the system32-folder (if you want to know how, I've written it down). Seeing as how illiterate my family is, I could've just put it on C: without problems..
* This Troper's mom recently found her brother's stash. This Troper has taken precautions by moving everything onto a flash drive, disguising the drive like a normal school related one with folders like history, math, science, etc. But if you look into the French folder you'll find a bunch of folders named in French. The folders are either nonsense in French, or the names actually hint at what's inside. This Troper is keeping her flash drive (aka the boobie farm, on her person at all times).
* This Troper has a bunch of standard decoy folders and "not porn" folder trees, and at the bottom of each one are clearly labeled folders of all his female friends, each containing pictures (and occasional video) of said friends...taken from the "friends" folder in "My Pictures" and off of Facebook. Prawns are currently being added. One of these decoys is in the MSN message history folder. Right next to it is a hidden folder with all the actual porn.
* This Troper keeps his on an unobtrusive disk image, which is encrypted using a randomly generated alphanumeric password which has never been written down or used for anything else. Not complicated, but quite effective.
* This Troper recently discovered that his porn stash (gained from swfchan.com and consisting of multiple flash games) was found and deleted by his mother. He knows this because it is no longer there. She has not brought it up, so he won't bring it up. He is also hoping to get a high capacity USB flash drive on which he can keep his stash.
* This troper now wants to start a porn stash just so he can hide it really well. (Have already made a folder maze and an inconspicuous folder inside an inconspicuous folder, but then I never got around to the actual porn part. Yeah I'm a geek.)
	+ Update: Finally got around to the porn part. It's all off 4chan, hidden in a hidden folder in an inconspicuous folder.
* This Troper remembers site names, or just browses for new ones...what?
	+ Same here.
* The Internet is this troper's porn stash, but he's willing to share with the rest of you.
* Deux Hero questions your methods of hiding your porn, why not just use a password protected zip?
	+ Compression takes a while, and you'd have to recompress every time you added something? (Encrypted partition works if you're computer-savvy enough.)
* This Troper keeps all of her things that she knows her parents would hate (Death Note manga - she tried to convince her mom to let her get it - and some other things...) on one of those Internet-favorite sites. Her parents don't know she has it. But seeing as her parents can go right past her second browser with all of her favorite websites (95% of which her parents know nothing about) in the plain old Favorites menu, she isn't too concerned.
* Encrypted and password-protected Win RAR archives in an inconspicuous directory are enough to keep the people I'm around off my furry gayness. Let it also be known that nobody ever looks in the directory "E:\Games\Alpha Centauri\data\cache\".
	+ Sandiego would kill you for such debasement.
* This troper's 2.5 GB porn (actually mix of slightly less than NSFW Fetish Fuel and fetish hentai) is on his flash drive. If anybody is willing to go searching for it there are several safety measures.
	+ Folder is hidden so it will be harder to find;
	+ Folder is hidden within a folder for a games data files (and is camouflaged to look like a folder that is supposed to exist there);
	+ There is the infamous "Prawn" folder (including breasts (of the chicken kind), Pussy (cat), furry (picture of cat fur), it exists inside of another folder where the porn stash is located;
	+ The NSFW example shown above (the one of a Jedi), and same as above, exists elsewhere where the porn is located.
	+ The hidden folder has the directory of Obviously not porn\seriously\not joking\Porn;
		- This troper would also like to note that these defences do not work unless you remember to keep the folder closed when not in use...
* Back in the good old days (early-mid 90's), this troper had to be very careful, as his only internet access was on his dad's computer late at night. I would save very few pics, and then rename them as numbers and change the file extension, saving them in obscure file paths. I would clean the browser history, delete cookies, everything. Then one night dad came downstairs very quietly, and I barely had time to close all the browser windows. The next morning he wanted to know what websites with clearly gay porn oriented names were doing on the computer. I managed to convince him that I was looking for codes for games and that they all just started opening up on me and there was nothing I could do. He didn't seem to notice the time stamps on them stretching for a three hour period. Nowadays I subvert this—my picture and video folders are subdivided into 'Porn' and 'Not Porn' and my Favorites has a folder marked 'Porn'. I make no attempt to hide it from anyone, even when I go visit my parents out-of-state—and let my two younger brothers use my laptop. What they do is their own damn business.
* This troper's father once told him "Have you been watching porn on the internet?" due to prank messages this troper got from a friend. A sick friend. I didn't know it, so I confessed, as well as saying what web site I was using. My dad said "I meant with Skype..." From then on, I've been purely using my father's porn stash, so that even if I do get caught because I'm really bad at not getting Perp Sweated, I can still say "I found it on the bookshelf!" Made even funnier by the fact that the bookshelf is precisely where I hold a few magazines of my own, but since I'm the only fantasy reader in my house, nobody ever looks there.
* This (gay) troper had the single worst coming out ever. His long term boyfriend and son of a family friend gave him assorted naked pictures of said boyfriend as a gag gift for his birthday. These were scanned and saved to the computer as they proved much more satisfying than anything found online. Of course these were discovered by snooping parents leading to the mother of all uncomfortable conversations. My boyfriend's parents were informed and we have been forbidden from spending time together. Despite this, I still returned the favour on his birthday, much to our amusement.
	+ This (also gay) troper feels your pain, and would like to give you a cookie. However, since cookies can be used to track your web history and should be regularly purged from your hard drive, I will simply remind you that your life is yours to live, and that this magical series of tubes we call 'the interwebz' can be more than accommodating if you know where to look.
		- Cookie gratefully accepted :) And I know where to look, those pictures are a lot more fun though ;)
* This troper once broke the news, very carefully, that he had a stash to his girlfriend of two years. The reaction? Turns out she was an even bigger fan than I was. CHA-CHING!!!
* This troper browses porn exclusively via the internet, doesn't keep a browser history (all non-porn sites visited frequently are bookmarked), and masturbates at night when his parents are always in another part of the house.
* This troper has a clearly marked porn folder on his desktop, it contains largely harmless softcore solo images, very few people bother to check much further, but those flicking through the folder might notice that the number of images visible in an image viewer and the number listed in the folder's properties are slightly different, this would be because the cute gothy girl about forty pages in is actually a cleverly disguised link to an entirely separate folder containing mild costume fetish porn and a little hardcore. After these two, no one ever thinks to search for the truly obscene stuff hidden and encrypted on an unlisted partition of the otherwise invisible secondary hd.
* This Troper has a folder in her Livejournal memories that's essentially one of these. It's where she puts pwps for future enjoyment.
* This troper doesn't have actual porn, but 'e does have quite a collection of erotic tetris/pokemon fanfics. He hides them in a folder along with actual schoolwork, and gave them all names like "Grammar week 3" Technically I can't really get in trouble though because I wrote most of them.
	+ Wanna bet? DM Rule 0 also applies to parenting.
		- This Troper's favorite is Crack!Fic and would love copies of Tetris erotica.
* This troper's mother is slowly becoming more computer literate. For now, he's content with just kind of kicking dirt over it. (One folder deep in his My Documents.)
* This troper, instead of leaving favorited site lying around on his browser, decided to have a draft of an email on his primary email account containing links to a variety of different galleries, videos and sites. That, plus Google Chrome's incognito mode and laptop, means he can 'get his fix' anywhere, anytime - and doesn't have to worry about people snooping around - all he has to do is sign out of his email.
	+ Before that, he made (and still has) a hidden folder on his desktop, hidden in Program Files in the folder of a game he plays. In it, are folders labeled e, h, s, u, v, based on the 4chan board names (although v, in this case, stands for videos).
* This troper has several folders in his computer that has porn. One which while it does have other non porn related items is called stuff. Another which is just pics is called Karate Move pics. On my external laptop I have several folders that has porn on it. One is called Music and one called Stuff. Thank god my parents are bad with computers, but this troper is in the process of changing things up to make it harder to find.
* This troper does not have a porn stash. As long as you define "porn" to involve "clearly visible nudity". He does, however, have a fair bit of scanty-clothing hypnofetish art with distinctly racy overtones, with the digital equivalent of hiding it under the mattress. He is now beginning to consider how to produce a maze more difficult than clicking several times on folders with repetitive names (out of a belief that should anyone manage to get onto his laptop, they've got better things to do with their time than click a dozen times on the same folders). He also maintains a far more public "Fanservice" folder, consisting largely of non-pornographic 4chan images that tend towards Breast Plate styling. His favourite justifications, which fortunately he's never had to use? "I'm trying to get back into doing anime-style art when I have nothing better to do", "I'm old enough to make my own decisions", and "OK, I'm a sexually-repressed geek who's never dated, got a problem with that?"
	+ He is also tempted to name a folder "Porn" and put in only a large jpeg file reading "SUCKER".
* This troper no longer has a porn stash, but used to save p2p-porn in: a passworded .rar together with a few dozen other .rar's of random program installers, in one of several dozen .rar's with similar content, minus the porn. It was never actually used and was deleted when this troper realized that it produced an overhead of more than 2000%.
* This troper doesn't keep much porn on her computer (she's more into reading than watching), but she still managed a near-miss when her dad asked to read a fanfic she'd written. She'd given him the URL to her fic archive and directed him to the page before she realized that this put him exactly two clicks away from all the (admittedly vanilla) PWP she's written. She very quickly volunteered to just e-mail him the document instead. And let's not even talk about the time he was trying to get a virus out of her computer and his cursor hung for a perilous second over the folder labeled "Boys"...yeah, it's mostly pictures of shirtless or even fully-clothed guys posing, but she also has certain tastes in men that she'd rather her dad not find out about. She's renamed and moved the folder since then.
	+ You know, you can tell us your "tastes" is men. We wont judge. Personally, I'm hoping your into stocky hairy guys. It's a rare preference.
		- Except in the great fortress of Boatmurdered.
		- Can't forget the cheese either, or the flaming puppies, or the scheming elephants, the list goes on. :D
* This troper's computers are all used by him only, or occasionally by other people when he is there. Porn isn't specifically hidden, but the computers are secure and locked whenever he gets up from them.
* Owning a somewhat expensive business laptop can be helpful sometimes - all such things which this troper possesses are in a biometrically-locked folder with a nondescript name, requiring my fingerprint to be run through the laptop's built-in fingerprint scanner to access it.
* Shared computer. Parents around. Three (yeah, three!) 500GB external drives, as well as download partitions on internal drives. Guys, this is not rocket science. True Crypt, AC Ls and not giving others Administrator/Root privileges does wonders. Trust me.
* This troper's grandmother revealed herself to be an unusually trusting individual when she related a story of years gone by: She found a stack of Playboys in the alleyway behind her house and asked her teenaged sons (this troper's father and uncle) what to do with them. "We'll take them!" Apparently, she just smiled slyly and said "OK." Huh.
* This troper's parents, when he was a child, shared the cost of a sitter with his neighbors. The sitter was a lazy bastard who partied all night and slept most of the day he was supposed to be watching us. So we got into my neighbors video and porn collection. This would be the summer I saw porn and Silence Of The Lambs for the first time.
* This troper isn't particularly interested in all this sort of thing (mostly due to scarring pictures on a website which trolls invaded), but has an ELEVEN-year-old brother who's just been introduced to this wonderful world. Unfortunately, he's not particularly internet savvy, as I discovered once when I was on his computer (due to mine being out of commission). I simply typed in www.p, hoping to access a Pokemon site, but instead was assaulted with links to unsavory areas of the web. I mostly ignored this (and his butchery of the word anime) until I caught him a little while later- all I did was calmly walk over to him, open up the history and delete it all for him. On an unrelated note, I was subject to a friend panicking about her suddenly-dead laptop and her rather large yaoi stash for about two weeks when it was sent in to get fixed.
* Mine's stored in a rather easy to find folder since I'm the only one that uses this computer. I've never been terribly concerned about hiding anything, and now I'm at an age where no one would care anyway. My physical doujinshi and Triptych official fanbook are just in a file drawer. My desktop also has the start icons for at least 5 hentai games.
* This troper once leant her friend a yaoi manga which, while not porn, was still fairly graphic. Her friend texted her asking when to return her "Gay Porn Book" when the mobile was charging next to the couch her mother inhabits and when said mom tried to turn off the alert she accidentally opened the text... This Troper only just barely managed to convince her it was an inside joke.
* Though never implemented, This Troper thinks it would be hilarious to have a porn stash buried in folders labeled "turn back" and "beware". The folder containing the folder with the actual stash would be set to preview pictures, and have goatse (don't google it) as the first file in the folder. They were warned.
* Once, when looking for my cousin's collection of humor pictures, I opened up Irfanview and it immediately opened to the last folder he was in. Which was where all his porn was located. It was a folder within a folder within a folder, etc., but the very fact that he was looking at his porn last meant that I didn't even have to look to find his porn, which was not my intent anyway! The best part? He happened to walk by while I was there and casually said "oh yeah, you found my porn" as if it were nothing.
	+ Once, at my cousin's house, I was using his computer to put songs on my new phone. After opening his recycle bin for some reason or another, I was greeted with several deleted videos of Family Guy porn. I tried hard to forget. He never found out.
* This trooper hides her stash in folders within folders, all hidden in a completely unrelated place in the 'program files' folder, hidden among things that make programs run. Who's going to go looking there? Sometimes she herself looses it....
	+ Actually, reading the post above this, perhaps that isn't enough to hide it...hmmm...
* This troper just now found his dad's porn folder. It was 343GB big.
* This Trooper was recently told that her friend and some of his friends often play "Let's find each others porn". She thinks she could beat all of them in that game.
* This Troper has several folders of X-rated fanfiction copied for when the internet is down.
* This troper used to have a flash drive loaded with porn that he kept hidden discreetly under the carpet where it met the wall under his reading desk. He has since gotten rid of it all because even though nobody had ever found it or even suspected it existed, he still worried about its discovery (this troper was very paranoid in his high school years).
* This troper has his images saved to his phone via a USB link cable. Since he always has his phone on him, and it requires a pin number to get into if it locks (which it does after just thirty seconds of innactivity), nobody has ever been able to see his Porn Stash.
* This Troper actually tried to find her parents porn stash when she was younger, out of curiosity. No such luck. This Troper also borrowed her boyfriend's computer, found his stash of anime pics, and left comments on all of them. Said boyfriend a programming student, was amused and assured her she hadn't found it all, for sure. Darn people being more computer literate than me. That said, this troper has her own computer, thankfully. Questionable websites are under Favorites - Human Research, and pictures are under Pretties.
* I'm a 20 year old male. I do not have a porn stash, and I have never looked at porn. Nor have I ever had any erotic services (strippers, etc).
	+ Are you looking for a medal or something?
	+ Nope, I've just never had any reason to look at porn.
	+ Uhm, then you're bragging that you get sex whenever you want or something?
	+ No, that would count as an erotic service.
	+ Then why the hell are you here?!
* This troper's mother is an erotica publisher, and when he finally owned up to her about his huge link of fetish porn... she actually said that she had WORKED WITH a few of the models and showed me where to get more of it.
	+ You're either Cursed With Awesome or Made Of Win.
		- Is your name Marten Reed, troper?
* Having had nosy cousins trying (and failing) to find the porn stash on his computer (via Search), This Troper now set up 2 links to the following websites on his computer: 1. 247PornAccess.com. 2. HardcoreHentai.com. At the time of writing, I am unsure if those 2 sites really exist. Additionally two MPEG videos: [247pornaccess hot girl getting fucked] and sexy asian girl giving blowjob
	+ I'm scared to click on those links, they're rickrolls, right?
		- First one is. Second one subverts by doing three seconds of that and then shows something else. The last two are banned commercials he gave Meaningful Names for, but are innocent otherwise. Go watch them, they are pretty amusing.
* This troper "hides" his porn in my pictures labeled nudes. Wife commented I have a wide varitey of tastes. Seeing as how some are of women of a large body type like her...she has since stopped worrying about not being attactive. :) It can be a good thing to have your stash found.
* This troper DOESN'T hide his porn stash. Not because I live alone; I do live with his parents. He just doesn't hide it because his parents don't give a flying fuck. Awesome. I did make a Lost Woods folder like an above troper though, but it was specifically for fun.
* This troper, though he does not have a porn stash (my imagination is more than good enough, thank you), has a tip for people: Alternate data streams. Basically, you can attach pornographic data (or any data, really) to a regular file and not have it detected by any but the most thorough searches. It may not keep the FBI out, but it will keep out everyone else.
	+ Makes one think why the FBI would be interested in anyone's porn stash. Can't they aquire all that stuff on their own?
* Just over half of this troper's porn collection consists of eroge, and there's actually a Visual Novel folder in his start menu. Should his parents ever feel the need to take a look at the contents of his computer, this troper's pretty sure that his parents' sheer unfamiliarity with the entire concept of visual novels will guarantee that they'll simply overlook this stuff. Of course, this troper did make sure that none of the shortcuts in the aforementioned Visual Novel folder have any overly suggestive names - Amorous Professor Cherry becomes Oxytocin, Do You Like Horny Bunnies becomes Myxomatosis, and Maiden Rape Assault - Violent Semen Inferno is just elle\_01.
	+ Violent... semen... inferno?
* This troper once found his dad's porn links. Using google autocomplete... trying to get to youtube sent me to youporn.
* This troper just keeps it all on his phone. Which conveniently plugs into his computer when he needs it blown up bigger than the phone screen.
* This troper is keeping a porn stash in his bedroom. It's not his. It's his friend's birthday, Christmas, and 'Yay, you got a job!' presents.
	+ Update: It's now in the friend's possession.
* This troper was home on leave from the army once, and when he went back on duty he left behind a box full of stuff, some of it porn. After he was gone his mom and sister had to move the box, which turned out to be too heavy for them, so they emptied it out. And he... really wishes they hadn't done that, especially since some of the material fell into the "as long as it's just fantasy it's okay" category. He wishes even more that his mom hadn't told him they saw it all. She seemed not too disturbed by it, so couldn't she have just let him live in ignorance?
* This troper was first made aware of the fact that his dad watches porn about a month ago. I was using his computer (since it's the only one with a printer attached) to download and print out some school stuff for my sister, who was sitting right beside me, when I noticed that dad forgot to clean his download history and one of the files was a porn video from a website I myself frequent. Since then, I managed to walk in on him masturbating to another porn vid when the rest of the family was in the other room but had the presence of mind to simply walk back out and close the door as if I forgot something in the room. I haven't managed to find his stash yet, but I'm trying. He might have stuff I don't, after all.
* This troper, after reading through this, stored his on a 1 GB USB Stick in E:/X-Com: Enemy Unknown/ufogold/Manual/. Nobody reads manuals.
	+ Then, had I been a friend of yours IRL and not know this, given that I like the X-Com games (despite the fact that I fail more often then not), you'd be screwed simply because I DO read the manuals for video games. :P
* Long ago, this troper used to post on 4chan. At one point, I'd visit /b/ every night to discuss random things. In fact, I still have an entire folder to save files to for later reposting, or files from other sources to post. Of course, because this is 4chan we're talking about here, it also doubled as my porn folder. Including stuff I'd never upload. But nowadays, since I rarely visit 4chan anymore, it's basically just my all-purpose porn folder. But if anyone found the folder, they wouldn't question it because IT'S 4CHAN.
* About a year ago, this troper had a few friends over. One of them was particularly internet savvy (read: 4channer) and took an intrest in my laptop. After showing him the games I had he went over to youtube. Too bad that youtube shares the first three letters with a porn site I frequent. I hear laughter, and he turns to me and says "Youporn?". I freak out and resisting the urge to strangle him and the knowledge away, I say that an internet troll posted a masked link. It worked, and to this day I use firefox instead of IE so I can clear my history.
* This troper has never been so glad that her mobile has free internet. For one thing, I can look at all the bondage fun and rape fantasies I want to for free. And for another, I can delete the history, I can pretend it never happened and nobody else has to see either.
* This troper actually doesn't have a porn stash. Asexuality has its benefits. That being said, I am frequently asked by friends who do to hide said stashes. Perhaps my favorite move was creating a folder named "Porn Collection", then putting a bunch of other folders in it that sounded edgy but weren't, such as "Bunnies" leading to pictures of...small rabbits. Naturally, the real porn was in there too. Among the 30 or so folders. This troper presumed people would catch on after 5 or so and just give up. No one has found it yet.
* This troper's porn stash is quite small; it was only started a few weeks ago, and it's growing slowly. Said stash is entirely (for the moment) GI Fs and pics, all hidden (ha!) under DESKTOP/Pictures/Blatant Pornography. The Blatant Pornography folder contains two folders, GI Fs and Stills. So far this troper has downloaded a handful of videos, watched them once or twice, and then deleted them, because he can remember enough to get the job done.
* This troper has a pretty large stash on his own computer, that is constantly growing, despite several cleanups. It's well hidden, since no one will ever touch his computer unless he TELLS them to. I DID have a small stash consisting of individual pictures, that misteriously dissapeared during a house cleaning. Looking for it was... awkward. But no one ever mentioned it again.
* Don't know if this quite counts, but when this troper was 14, her brother was in college. He sometimes used her computer when he came home. One day, she goes on her computer, checks her history to go back on the fanfiction, and instead finds that SOMEONE went on sites such as tokyoporn and japanesesluts dot com. Apparently her brother couldn't go for a weekend without porn and couldn't be bothered to clear the history on his little sister's computer. She was reasonably horrified, and later reasonably pissed when her brother blamed HER for her computer's future many viruses.
* This troper's mother has stated openly that she knows he looks up internet porn, and doesn't really care as long as he doesn't read or watch anything violent. So, I'm good unless I develop a thing for extremely hardcore S&M.
* This troper recently received his dad's vinyl record collection, which I was really glad about. I was going through the different records, and when I got to the Best of Blondie album and pulled out the record, I found a small booklet that contained numbers to sex lines with pornographic ads, and also contained 3 sex stories with accompanying pictures. Needless to say, I still have it, albeit not in any of the record sleeves.
* This troper has over 30 gigs of both het and yaoi porn on her computer. The only thing keeping it away from everyone is the fact that the computer is set up with a password for 10 gigs of it and the other 20 are on an external hard drive I have hidden...
* This troper keeps all of his erotic fiction (self-written and downloaded) right in his documents folder, next to all his school papers. It works because my parents, while competently tech-savvy, are not at all internet/fandom savvy, and so have no idea what a RiSo, Akuroku, Kataang, Tokka, or Maiko is, or what "Link/Midna" refers to. All my pics are stored in similarly named folders (even ones that don't necessarily have to do with fandoms) in my pictures archive. No one knew a thing until my attempts to teach my girlfriend about fandoms backfired and she discovered that I had approximately 15 Gigs of porn on my laptop. It was awkward until she revealed that she, ah, appreciated it. Then it was just awesome.
* What really amazes me is I still have a bunch — like several hundred megs — of stuff from back in the day when my only way online was over a dailup modem. I must have sat there for hours. One example of the Internet not making someone more productive.
* This troper lost a friend at the horribly young age of 34. It was a while before his parents were able to show up, so a mutual friend immediately flew over to the deceased's town and started sorting out his apartment. She says she had to throw out an ENORMOUS quantity of porn before the folks showed up.
	+ Why is that so morbidly ironic?
* Christ, guys, this troper just doesn't let people his laptop.
	+ Yeah, seriously. Who needs encryptions, folder mazes, and half a dozen hard drives when all one needs to do is put a password on one's computer?
* This (asexual) troper has no interest in actual porn, however she does have a rather vast collection of rather...extreme material she found out to be somewhat useful as a (nonsexual) kind of stress relief (let's just leave it at that). And while she lives alone, she wants to be SURE. So it's hidden deep inside an encrypted volume (all other personal things are in there, as well), and the encryption software is configured to automatically dismount all mounted volumes after 10 minutes of inactivity. So even if she, say, spontaneously drops dead while her computer is running, no one is ever going to see that. She sleeps a bit better knowing this...
* When her own computer broke down, this Troper once kept a porno text adventure game, in a file of her own, in plain sight on her mother's computerfor two months and her mom never found it. Praise me.
* This troper still remembers the days when he stored all of his "questionable" images on a stack of 3.5" floppy disks hidden inside a pencil box under his desk. Nowadays he just keeps a modest collection hidden in a plain sight, in a folder named "Folder" on his laptop (though as all his desktop icons are kept invisible, and thus to actually get to "Folder" you have to take a somewhat roundabout path).
* At Quake Con 2009, filesharing was prevalent as always. Games, videos, movies... and of course pornography. The largest filesharer had over 10TB of data to offer the server. 1.4TB of his files were porn, and labeled as such for easy access to those who wanted to leech. To anyone who has bragged about stash sizes before this point... you have officially been one-upped. This trope is probably subverted in that it was open for sharing, but it apparently spawned quite a few new stashes, or added to old, amongst con-goers
	+ One thing: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET 1.4 TERABYTES OF PRON?
	+ I don't know, but I seriously wish I was there T\_T well, depending on what kind of porn it was...
* This Troper's cousin died last year, leaving behind a storeroom filled with several hundred file boxes of porn, sex toys, and man-sized woman's clothing. His fundamentalist relatives eventually dug a big pit and burned it all.
* Some friends made friends with a mentally handicapped man near them. He seemed to have money problems, so they helped him out with cash from time to time. Then one weekend they decided to help him move. He had 98 boxes additional to his regular stuff. One fell off their truck and burst open to reveal hardcore magazines. In fact, when they asked him he admitted that all 98 boxes were porn. The friends, who were both quite conservative and very annoyed at his using the money they gave him thusly, threw it all in a dumpster. (I imagine it was rescued.)
* Thanks to this page, this female troper now secures her homemade Poser/DAZ porn with True Crypt. Her parents aren't nosy, but she would be embarrassed for her adult sibling to find her somnophile material while looking for the Oblivion data directory...
* The closest thing this troper has to porn is the entire first season of Superjail, which she bought off iTunes. Where is it hidden? Why, in the TV section of iTunes, of course! Now, you may be saying that Superjail isn't actually porn. But there WAS the episode Ladies Night, which was the first episode I saw. Plus it's heavily violent, more so that a lot of manga I read. And I'm a fifteen-year-old girl living with a computer-savvy conservative father and a less-savvy but kinda snooping mom (they mean well!) Despite my dad's savvyness, he still doesn't even know I watch that show, nor is he aware of the show's existance. Go me.
* This Troper keeps a collection of hentai in a folder called 'h' in plain view in the root directory of F:, a data storage partition on the main harddrive. Works just fine with family who only use the computer for internet, and have been trained to use the 'open file location' method of getting to downloads. Doesn't work so well on slightly more tech-savvy girlfriend... who proceeded to prove herself another kind of awesome by casually shutting the window with "Found your stash. I already copied over some of my stuff you might like."
* This troper was originally going to help with the scanlations of Saint Seiya Episode G. When that fell through, he kept the folder and keeps all his doujins in it. The size is justifiable if there are Saint Seiya image scans in there, and nobody's really bothered looking.
* This Troper uses fingerprint scan encryption software for his.
* This Troper's parents once went on vacation for a week. Leave it to his aunt to spontaneously revamp their room while they're gone. After this, he and his cousins and siblings went through their drawers to move the dressers out of the room, and...wow. Lots of tapes and DV Ds. He still wonders if his aunt regrets doing it and finding these things. This troper, however, is majorly embarrassed to remember it.
* This Troper keeps his porn in two folders in the video and the image folders, both clearly labeled "porn".
* This Troper does most of his stuff on the internet, saving any works he deems worthy. saved under the 'iChat Icons'. This troper does, however, make sure to close all his tabs after a 'Hard Day's Night', after one or two or three instances were they were found out.
* This Troper keeps all of his porn in a hidden folder in the directory with his mp3 player's media converter. Multiple desktops come in handy, too. Whenever I browse it, I keep something perfectly innocent on the other one, so I can quickly switch over to it. I also lock my screen whenever I get up.
* This trope turned This Troper's most recent purchase of a new computer into a waste. It has been over a year and This Troper has not been able to clean up and organize his Porn Stash well enough to make a transfer anything like simple.
* Not really a porn stash, but This Troper's internet crashed right after she had been reading [Slash Fic slash fanfiction] for a pairing from a movie that she and her mom both liked, and, well... Let's just say that if the characters involved were human (they were actually robots- don't ask) it would probably have been rated M. It was still up when her internet was fixed, and she was later greeted by her mother telling her, "Oh, yeah, I read [the fanfic]. It was really good."
* This Troper use to have doujins, erotic fictions and all sorts of hentai on his hard drive before it crashed.
* This troper doesn't have a porn stash, preferring to remember good websites and occasionally clearing his history. For other files I don't want found, I stick them in my overflowing, never-been-emptied trash. It beats the casual searches, which is my only real worry.
* After reading this page, I now have one. Thanks, guys. Luckily, G:\ won't be found by any snoopers. If you want it badly enough to decrypt the .tc, then you're not showing it to mom; you're putting my name in a government database.
* this troper doesn't have much (You can only see a picture so many times and still find it interesting. And by so many I mean like, maybe 10), but generally that's what he uses his old laptops for.
* Before I got a computer of my own I was forced to hide printouts in my closet, which worked quite well. Well, until I broke my arm and had to go get an X-ray. My brother was home alone and apparently had our neighbor come over. I had to call him for something and I heard the snickering, which I didn't find at all suspicious. When I got home I went over to my neighbor's house, where the were saying stuff about porn (which I didn't catch for some reason) before they finally just came out and said they found my stach. Shortly after that I burned my stach. I don't even keep porn on my computer anymore just to make things easier for everyone. Of course it doesn't really matter since my parents can't even work the DVD player let alone search my computer, and my brother has his own computer, which he spends most of his time locked in room with, If You Know What I Mean.
* This Troper made of file maze based on a grid maze he sketched.
* This troper keeps all his (about 20GB of) porn on a Linux virtual machine running on a Windows PC (complete with V Mware running on the background) occasionally used by his parents. Because the porn folder is only reachable via NFS (not supported on Windows by default), only from a fixed range of IP addresses (which only his laptop uses), and I'm the only Linux user on the house, everybody else is unaware. Also, his porn bookmarks are on Chrome (he uses Firefox as his main browser) on another user account. And his porn torrents are on a separate program, which runs as a server and will only accept torrents put into a certain folder on his home directory.
* This troper (identity concealed) resorted to putting a Truecrypt volume with plausible deniability, with the fake password revealing nothing but random pictures found on the internet, while the real password reveals another Truecrypt volume whose password is the SHA-512 hash of a binary file encoded in base 64, obtained from random noise from Random.org in the form of uppercases, lowercases and numbers fed to a base-64 to binary converter. This file is backuped in his e-mail, with the password being a base64-encoded random file generated by Linux's /dev/random CSPRNG, which is memorized by rote and written in a piece of paper he always carries inside his socks. The encryption, in case you were wondering, is cascaded AES-Twofish-Serpent ciphers for both volumes, being AES the cipher used by the US government for Top Secret material, and the other two being only a little less awesome. Extreme? Yeah. But if you want to find his porn, you're gonna have to fight!
* The most effective place to hide porn is a folder labeled "Taxes" "School" or something similar. People with elaborate folder mazes and other super-ultra hacker-proof porn hiding systems are just insecure.
* This troper's laptop is password-protected, she uses Safari only for in-browser pr0n-surfing and clears her history (and doesn't make the icon easy to find, if someone was to use the Internet on her laptop she assumes they'd go for IE or FF, both of which have icons on the taskbar), and the porn she has saved is in a hidden folder within another folder on a memory stick. She keeps her French work in a folder called Porn Collection to throw people off the scent.
* This troper managed to leave his porn outside any folder on his USB drive, which when accessed on a computer in college,(for schoolwork) with a great many people around him, displayed the pictures when the drive was opened, for all to see. Similarly, this troper also forgot that his rather interesting sketches were in the same notebook used for schoolwork, which nearly caused an incident when opening the notebook in plain view of the girl he happened to like. This troper reckons his lightning fast reflexes have saved him from horror on those occasions. His lesson learnt, he has taken greater care with his stashes since then.
* This troper's defenses for his porn stash are modest, but they'll keep anyone out unless they're ridiculously tech-savvy and hellbent on finding anything incriminating for a blackmail scheme. They are an invisible folder on my password-protected admin account, in addition to clearing the history every time I log out of Firefox. I'm thinking of also employing a decoy Prawn folder like that above troper. Seriously, that's the best idea I've seen yet.
	+ This troper uses a similar system, except he uses Firefox's Private Browsing feature when searching for porn (Nice try, Mozilla, we all know it's real name is "Porn Mode"). Likewise, no one in my family is going to find it - my mother and father are so un tech-savvy he has to show them how to open Firefox every single time, and his sister just doesn't care.
		- Original troper here: I've updated my stash-hiding system to include three obvious decoy folders — one which links to this very page, I might add. Should anyone be tech savvy enough to bypass the password prompt for my admin account with a few simple tricks in the command prompt, I have no doubts they'll be able to find the hidden fourth folder, which contains... a link to a screamer video. I've still got my my real stash hidden in an invisible desktop folder, and I know that the one intrinsic flaw in my defenses besides lack of encryption is that the invisible folder is easy enough to find if you run a search using the right words.
* This troper used to keep porn in a maze of folders before realizing that nobody cared. Hell, both his mom and his dad indirectly told him that masturbation was one of the best stress relievers.
* This troper keeps some porn vids (all lesbian or girl-masturbation. no mantacles) in (I=Ext. HD) I://visualboyadvanced/GBA ROMS/(various folders he NEVER plays). Before his site (Young Porn Movies) switched to streaming, he would save them in GBA ROMS and then delete them (or store them). To this day (a year or more after establishing it) he has had no mention of it. He also found out that his dad has went to You Porn... Because as he went to google HIS porn (The Internet Explorer is for Porn), he typed 'you' and the autocomplete mentioned youporn. YEAH... That's why HE deletes his history! And also, don't peek in his fanfiction.net favourites. He uses that site 99% for lemons and is PROUD of it!
* This troper found his dads stash, promptly copied it over into his files, and then that was practically the only porn he had saved on the computer. He used the internet for anything else. Of course, now he has his own computer, and likes to shock his mum about his savvyness upon the subject, so he doesnt even really hide it anymore. Still, it might help if he copied most of it out of his downloads file...
* Subverted with me a few years ago. A "friend" of mine insisted that I must have a porn stash somewhere. After all, everyone has a porn stash somewhere, right? When he failed, due to the fact that I don't actually have one either in the physical world or the electrical one, he was merely convinced that I was a truly cunning bastard. This was despite my being completely naive to the world of electronics at the time. (I'm still not very good at it now.)
* After reading this page this troper decided to start a stash, having been perfectly happy with teh Interwebz until then. It lasted about two days and 25 megs of pics before he decided it wasn't worth the trouble and deleted it. His Internet pr0nning is quite a complex affair. he uses Firefox's "Private Browsing/Porn Mode" to mask my tracks, and for the actual pornification, a secondary StumbleUpon account set to only porn, and the FF add-on "Bring The Porn." BTP is uninstalled at the end of every session, and StumbleUpon switched back to the "normal" account. It also helps that he has his own computer in his room and his parents no longer care if he's up til 4 in the morning doing, y'know, stuff.
* This troper has had his own computer with internet access since he was 13. When I was 14 my dad showed me how to clear the internet history "just in case mom uses your computer." Right now, since both my parents and sister have their own computers, I don't need to protect it well. A little trail of folders and an alternate browser profile prevents anyone from accidentally finding it.
* This troper was a technician. Admittedly, people who can't solve their own computer problems provides the mother of all sampling biases, but my store now has the largest stash of various kinds of porn than anyone I can imagine.
* C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\Data\Fallout - Skins.bsa (which is a 5GB True Crypt file with Serpent-Twofish-AES encryption masquerading as a .bsa archive).
* This troper never had serious reason to hide a porn stash due to the parents not raising an eyebrow at her reading books from the Earth's Children series in plain view of them. For a while she kept an obscurely labeled floppy with a copy of her high school best friend's porn stash (it seems that Claudia Christian did a topless shoot, and there was a pic of Carrie Fisher with a perhaps unintentionally transparent top) but images weren't really ever the most interesting thing. Haven't shared a home computer long-term for a good 9 years; have shared files with pretty much all roommates. There's a fairly clearly-labeled folder in the images section, and iTunes may have auto-arranged the one or two videos. Currently maintaining a delicious.com archive of bookmarked fanfiction as a bit of a public service (I read it; I liked it; why risk the bad stuff if you have recommendations to read through first?); currently \*not\* making public some of the entertaining things found on Literotica. And then there's Google Image Search, and a few website recommendations from friends.
* This troper's best friend admitted that there was a certain box of anime on the top shelf of his closet. His father knew about it. His mother did not. Said best friend once also went to put a DVD in the player in his room, realized there was something in it, and very very quickly snatched the disk out, stuffed it in a box, and shoved the box somewhere that none of the printing on it could be seen. All while turning bright red. This troper was very curious, but it probably would have been TMI unless they were either actually dating or totally uninterested in each other.
* A moment of silence, please, for ~500GB of data on a friend's corrupted external hard drive. The originals of the regular files backed up on the external were safe. The external was also home to their (the friend and her girlfriend's) extensive porn collection, which ... may have been backed up on the original discs, but was otherwise lost.
* This troper and his friends are all pretty open about the existence of their porn stashes. As a matter of fact, I have one or two friends who've done a number of photoshoots and are absolutely cool with everyone seeing them. My friends are the best.
* C:\Program Files\Online Services. Mostly for the lols, whenever someone else is on my computer I'm in the room anyway.
* This troper doesn't really think it could be called a stash since when he was young his mother, yes his \*MOTHER\*, got them for him so she was well aware of it. It's funny, the women I know seem to have a habit of this. My aunt bought my uncle Playboy when they were kids and my ex girlfriend once actually asked to see, and was quite turned on by, my magazine stash. Now I just obsessively delete the links and clear the browser history.
* This troper just burns it to a CD and puts it amongst unorganized music C Ds. Simplicity is best.
* This Troper has nearly 80 GB of porn on an external hard drive (not bragging, stating fact — please don't flaunt your e-penis in my face) that isn't even remotely hidden. "K:/New Folder (2)" is enough for me. And no, there's no encryption. And yes, there is stuff that's illegal in my jurisdiction.
	+ What kind of stuff is it?
* This troper shares a computer with her father, though since we have different accounts and he can't see my files when he's logged into his, I never saw much purpose in really disguising my porn folder beyond naming it "pictures of kittens" (trust me, there are no kittens in that folder). We recently backed up all our files and he wanted me to check with him if everything copied okay... And that's when I realized that my father, upon seeing a folder that promised pictures of kittens, would definitely decide to take a look. I am password protecting it before he checks again...
* This Troper got his porn folder buried in a game folder.
* This Troper uses the incognito window in Google Chrome.
* This Troper not only hides it in plain sight offline, but his folder containing it is literally labelled Hentai. Of course, this is on my own laptop.
* This Troper doesn't even bother to hide it. It's under "My Documents" in a file simply named "Filth." There's nothing illegal and no one cares.
* This troper doesn't have a porn stash—or thought I didn't. There was an incident where I was searching for a particular file, location unknown, and ended up clicking in every folder it might possibly be in. After about ten minutes of searching, lo and behold: A doujinshi I'd downloaded a year or two ago. I've clicked on the folder, thinking it was something else, at least once or twice since then. I should work on my memory skills.
* It's not actually porn, just ecchi, but all of my pictures are located in the directory C:\Games\GTA\San Andreas\GTA San Andreas\data\missiondata. Now, anyone with GTA can see that this doesn't exist, and the folder is edited so that the icon resembles all of the real files in that location. Not perfect, but more than enough to be an effective safeguard, hidden right in front of their eyes. Also it's empty.
	+ What a coincidence; I once downloaded GTA San Andreas and found it to be Grand Theft Anal. And when I moved it to another HD, I kept the name and extension.
* This troper discoverd the wonders of internet porn by stumbling onto what he thought was his fathers porn stash on the family computer. Although in retrospect it was just the Temp folder (I was like 10 at the time) Now days I live out of home and hide my mostly inocuous porn in folders of the most foul names I can think of. A folder for animated hentai .gif's is labeled "Lesbian incest Scat" for example.
* This Troper was pretty safe from having his porn stash found by his parents. First, because it was originally on CD/R's that he hid with his regular music. And secondly, because they knew he had already found theirs long before.
* This Troper hides his in a folder filled with miscellaneous patches and installers for games and software I own. I can justify it by saying "Oh, So-and-So program is too invasive but it's useful to have" or something like that, or "Patch x.y.z-1 is better for Game N because of so-and-so, but patch x.y.z fixes the Game Breaker". More often than not, people don't care enough to look up what the hell I'm talking about (which is mostly improvised).
* This troper doesn't even bother hiding it. It's all sitting there, on the desktop, in one folder: Hentai. I figure anyone who knows what Hentai is won't care and anyone who cares better not be in my room looking at my computer, unless they want a throwing knife in their ear. The only other "explicit" material sessha owns is filed safely away where it belongs: Games.
* This troper up until 2 months ago has never had a porn stash. The one I have is 33 MB + 1 picture that barely counts because I saved it for the funny caption. I just surf through the same sites and remember the links to get to the pictures I really like. The 33 MB was a few pictures (over 300, of which I'm only interested in around 10 (hey they were zipped in a collection)) I always had trouble finding. Now I'm thinking of making a stash because of this page.
* This troper isn't quite as paranoid as some here - she's got most of hers simply squirreled away a few levels deep in her home directory, on a Solaris machine. That's enough to keep the casual voyeurs out - but when more shielding is needed (like on cruise), it gets encrypted using a 256-bit AES key, that is in turn protected by the private key on her military ID. Maybe not foolproof, but it'll stop all but the very most dedicated.
* This troper's laptop: 250 GB harddisk with three partition. C for windows files (sometimes attacked by virus), E for my college and game file (which is always visited by my friend), and D for programs (no one and no virus will access it). you must be know where I save my 1GB of doujinshi. Combined with zipping the entire folder change the extension, and hide it.
* This Troper is, essentially, a lucky bastard. She has her own laptop, to which her parents don't know the password (they could proabably never guess it either, as it's in Japanese, and a reference to something they'll probably never read in their life), and have no reason to go on it anyway. Her mom and brother both have computers of their own, and her dad is completely computer illaterate (He wouldn't know HOW to search my folders or history, even if he wanted to... I remember we had to teach him how to use email once, but that's another story). This troper still has to be extra careful though, because half of her porn is lesbian, lolicon, or both. My sacred lemon fanfiction, however, is left out in the open for all to see. Let's just hope no one in my house picks up any Rumiko Takahashi manga.
* This troper used to go to fairly extensive measures (though nothing compared to some mentioned on this page already) to keep his (much of it somewhat...exotic, by everyday standards) stash well hidden from his girlfriend during the first year or so of their relationship. That continued until he discovered that not only did she not bother to hide her own stash, she had quite deliberately set her screensaver up to show her pics in a slideshow. These days, we happily share.
* This troper is currently working at creating a very advanced file system maze for his stash. There are 16,777,216 'dead ends' in the maze, at the end of the path. He's working on getting these to become shortcuts that lead to somewhere else in the maze, so the happless snooper never comes across an end to the maze. The folder icons are altered so they appear the same as the shortcuts, so the snooper doesn't know when he's being mislead. Also, the pictures are all named using the same convention as the files in the maze, so if they try searching, they will get 2,396,745 results for each possible search string, making it harder to wade through to find anything in particularly. I'm wondering whether to forgo the stash and only store a singlepicture of a prawn, perhaps with a caption saying "lol".
* This troper loves reading, and has a bookshelf full of books. One of those books, however, has been partially hollowed, just enough to hold his Truecrypted thumb drive. The only way someone would find the thumb drive is if they knew there was a stash inside one of my books, as from the exterior the book looks innocuous.
* A bookmark folder called "Duke Nukem Forever cheats." Highlights are downloaded to a thumb drive in my watch, in a folder with the same name. This latter isn't intended to conceal, only to segregate — I have my resume on the same drive.
	+ Where did you get a watch like that? I totally want one.
* This troper, while not having one himself, found his dad's porn stash. And by that, I mean I found 2 stashes.
* Being a grown-ass woman, I don't really worry about hiding my porn. It's my computer, and I'm the only one who uses it. Hell, when my grandma brought up "OMG WHAT IF SHE WATCHES PRONZ?!?!" (I was 17), my mom was like "...so?" Much worse was me discovering my dad's stash, and his idea of discretion is hitting mute. When we shared a computer, he would leave porn up (okay, I didn't really mind that so much). When I was a KID. He has some pretty freaky shit, too. Anyway, I mostly use in-browser sites like Youporn, so there isn't much need.
* This Troper only watched "normal" porn (i.e. real adults doing real things to each other) he is 17 and still at home but doesn't hide his porno at all. He has his own laptop but even if his mother did find any of his stuff she would simply be told that I am an adult and can do as I wish.
* This troper came across his mother's gay S&M porn stash at a young age and is still trying to unsee it. When I learned that most male slash was written by women it was no surprise at all, though.
* This trope depends on the effectiveness of Rules 1 and 2 of 4chan to avoid having his porn found. By storing it under a 4chan labelled folder, and having a few more innocent pictures at the top (ORLY, Mudkipz, etc.) he has so far managed to avoid suspicion.
* This Troper is too afraid of her peers thinking of her as a pervert to save any of her porn to her computer. I don't even bookmark it. A more effective method is to memorize urls and use a different broswer than I normally do so that even if you opened up the internet history, oddly enough on this particular machine it wouldn't be there. The stupid thing about this is that I don't even look at weird porn. It's pretty vanilla stuff and honestly I'm not sure why I'm this embarrassed about it. Anyone who went through the trouble of finding my porn would be pretty thoroughly disappointed, I think.
* This troper has a sad story indeed. I once had a 60 gig collection of doujinshi, hentai videos, and pictures, all hidden in an external hard drive. At college, any day I brought my HD was like Christmas to my friends. And the movies...ah, the movies...Moonlight Lady was a particular favorite of mine. Then came last semester. An unfortunate incident at 4Chan (IP was logged on a site) freaked me out, and I was scared of two things: the FBI, and what they would do to me for having downloaded licensed h-vids. So, I deleted everything. EVERYTHING. This troper has re-made some of his collection, now that he's calmed down, but the regret....it burns me so...
* This troper, being rather a fan of female wrestling and hot amazons, bought an external harddrive to save movies to. Youtube and related adult tube sites, you see, tend to take that stuff down due to copyright violations, and compared to normal porn it's not exactly common. His girlfriend has her own external harddrive for porn, and they have made a mutual agreement to never discuss the contents.
* Like many others, this Troper has her own personal computer. Sometimes my sister looks in my computer for the doujinshis I keep—most of which are yaoi. My personal system goes like this: pairings are associated with certain foods. The work safe doujins are in folders named after sweets and the heavy stuff is in folders named after types of alcohol. With this system in mind, I simply tell my sister to stay away from the alcohol.
* This troper feels a bit of an over obsessive because my porn stash (hidden in a folder called "executable files") is better organized than the family photos folders. For example I differentiate between a folder of lesbian sex and girls who are simply posed together in the positions but not actually having sex - but all the family pictures for 2009 are unceremoniously shoved in a folder marked "2009 Pictures", making me feel a little guilty about what I obsess over. The actual, physical magazines, etc is in the top drawer of my armoire, with my wife's stash, well out of reach of the kids until they grow another two feet (or get a chair).
* This Troper found her dad's hidden porn stash while cleaning out a load of junk from a cupboard in her mum's bedroom. This was 10 years after they split up. There was loads of magazines. My mum thought she had thrown them all out, cause she threw out the ones she found in a drawer and under the bed, years ago. My dad had so much porn. What is worse, is that apparently it was stolen from my grandad! Also my friend found loads of sex toys and gay porn in her parents room. Apparently her parents are into bondage...
* This troper avoided keeping a porn stash on his computer before a while ago, and now I keep all of that in my personal hard drive, hidden inside the Program Folder for Sonic R.
* This troper keeps his porn/hentai in a folder in My Documents labelled "Fapping material". This is split into many sub-folders, organized by hair color of the girl involved. I am currently considering splitting up the multi-color folder and splitting off the most common examples of having multiple hair colors in it. It used be 2.5 gigs, but recently, I decided to do on of his infrequent(as in once a year) purges of it and winnowed it down to the point where the biggest folder had 60 images in it
* This troper has the idea in her mind for an inversion, when she can get her own computer. She will have a clearly labeled folder called "Porn" on the desktop, that will in fact contain porn and hentai. However, if you scroll down, then you will find what she's really hiding... her Guilty Pleasures and anti-Nostalgia Filter material, such as the Clue Finders games.
* E:/My pictures/4chan/y/u This, plus the fact that I numbered everything instead of naming it, makes sure that they'll never find it. Evil laughter ensues.
* This troper had a particularly clever version way back when with his pregnant/inflation porn. He stored it in a random game folder on his hard drive in a folder with a keyboard-mashed name. For the longest time, this troper remembered having the folder "hjklopiu" stashed away in the Aliens vs. Predator 2 directory. Ironically, the troper got the urge to show his friend who he had invited over that day, who gave the natural response of "ew, you're a pervert!". Mom overheard, so she gave me a stern warning to delete everything later. I don't remember if I actually did it or not. To further the irony, my paranoia over having it found was so over-the-top that it made me look extremely suspicious. I had a password on my whole computer in case my parents would just happen to find the one folder that had the porn in it. You know, my Mom who only really gets how to use email, the Internet, and Microsoft Word, and my Dad who works with big, cancer-blasting medical tools for a living. And someone's totally gonna search my hard drive for "hjklopiu" and "show\_name\_expansion\_3.mov" on a whim, right? Of course, my refusal to remove the password did little to help that. Somehow I managed to avoid getting caught red-handed in the strictest sense of the phrase, though. Nowadays, this troper just stops by to see what's up on bodyinflation.org and inflatechan.net every once in a while, not so much for pornographic reasons as to just see what's happening. I kind of got over porn a few months ago.
* This Troper has a folder plainly labeled "Porn" on the desktop of his computer. Said computer is nominally password-protected, but always logged in so that hardly matters. My main security measure is in controlling access to my room and computer in the first place. As a secondary precaution, actually opening anything in the folder will just get you a completely innocuous video because I don't actually have a porn stash. I'm asexual, so I can't enjoy that sort of thing anyway.
* This Troper keeps his stash on a usb drive formatted in ext2, guaranteeing that nobody who runs Windows can actually read it.
* This Troper has a relatively extensive stash (three gigs, mostly gay furry, mixed in with 4chan stuff) kept hidden with a program he found called Free Hide Folder. Basically a hidden folder, but a little more solid. Nothing fancy. Oh, and clearing Firefox's history is a must.
* The Troper has it all on his Synology Disk Station, which is on the wifi-network. All 70 gb of it.
* While not really porn, this troper came up with a somehow interesting form of hiding a rather sexy photo he saved on his folder. And by interesting, I mean "put the photo in a layer on a .psd file with lot of crap on the upper layers" interesting.
* This troper doesn't keep any porn locally on his laptop. Instead, he hides it on an external hard drive (inconspicously named "X-COM Database" and the "Porn" folder is filled with stuff like X-COM and Sam & Max) and hides most of it on an SD Card which is 99% of the time in his PS 3.
	+ ...until recently, when a friend of his discovered all of it under the guise of wanting to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now I just hide it in a folder that's zipped and renamed to "CS Profile.dat" and hidden in my Cave Story directory (C:\Program Files\Cave Story\Cave Story\CS Profile.dat) and unzipped to said external hard drive and when done, rinse and repeat. I don't think anyone besides the government's gonna be THAT dedicated to find my stash. No need for True Crypt or stuff like that.
* This troper did something like this as a joke; with a folder labeled as "Not Porn". Inside, you'll find a picture of "hot chicks" It's really a picture of a KFC bucket
* This Troper has you all beat. He has four Hard Drives in his desktop, each equaling 500 GB in size. One is for Games, one is for Movies, and one is for Anime and Manga. Guess what the last one is for.
* Not-quite porn goes in home/Pictures/Cute and home/Pictures/Cute/Couples and Kisses (I'm gay, so I like couples and kisses pictures; I'm not sure how that would work for straight guys). Actual porn goes in home/Documents/Yikes. Filenames usually reflect the site they were downloaded from. I see no reason to hide it. The compter as a whole is password protected, and that's enough. Also, I no longer live with my parents, which helps.
* At /usr/lib/libqt4.so, chmodded 000 root:root, executable catted 7zip encrypted file (store compression) containing a ext3 fs with a 1M IS Ofs "header".
	+ And my /root/.bash\_logout calls it. The executable part properly removes all nasty stuff
	+ To get to it, I do:

user@computer:/:$ su

Password:

computer:/# cd /usr/lib

computer:/usr/lib# chmod 400 /usr/lib/libqt4.so

computer:/usr/lib# un7zip /usr/lib/libqt4.so # it's a executable i made

\*\* un7zip: /usr/lib/libqt4.so: not in 7zip format

computer:/usr/lib# (by the script program) su user

Password:

user@computer:/usr/lib$ exit

computer:/usr/lib# head -c1M libqt4.so > /dev/hda1

computer:/usr/lib# mount /dev/hda1 /media/system # All files inside are 600 user:user

computer:/usr/lib# # And when I exit root, it unmounts /media/system, removes /dev/hda1 and chmods /usr/lib/libqt4.so 000 back.

* Being a healthy young man and a legal adult, I've got no reason to hide the fact that I have a porn stash. However, since a lot of it's hentai, and "real" porn is the only acceptable form of porn to enjoy ever, I keep it in a zip archive titled "all hope abandon ye who enter here", stored in another zip archive (which is password locked) named "turn back while you still can". In other words, I'm Obfuscating Stupidity by hiding my stash in an obvious manner, but for reasons entirely different from what anyone suspects.
* Being a programmer, my porn stash is encrypted in a custom database that encrypts all file names and file data, making them almost undetectable. To top it off, there's some legit stuff in the same database stored using a different password :D
* My 'Porn Stash' ((cute girls with clothes on in sexy poses)) if you could call it that is saved on a password protected USB.
* This troper has a bit of a thing for girls in corsets, so (ashamedly) her pictures from a recent Emilie Autumn concert serve more than one purpose. She also deletes her history regularly to get rid of any more incriminating things and those Harry Potter slashfic communities on Live Journal.
	+ She also found evidence of her dad's porn stash when he accidentally left a DVD in the DVD player named "Ultimate lesbians: girl-on-girl." I'm disgusted, but even more so by the fact that I would probably enjoy that too.
* All my porn (currently consisting of nothing but hentai though I plan to add plenty of real Japanese women soon) is stored on an 8GB flash drive, along with other, non-porn stuff. I have my own laptop, and in my Favorites there is a folder marked "Porn" in plain sight with eleven links in it. I don't make any real effort to hide any of it (aside from making absolutely sure that my USB is safe at all times), because I'm 21 years old. My USB, my laptop, nothing illegal, whoever doesn't like it doesn't have to look at it.
* Uhm. External HD > Images > 4chan > /co/ > Rule 34. Thats it. Everytime I dare my boyfriend-at-the-time to find my porn folder, its never been found and a couple of them are genre and tech savvy enough to probably find it if they tried hard enough.
* I don't have a porn stash (I just use Google if I feel the need for porn). I'm actually more worried about people finding my folder of fan fics (one is about weird things with animals, but that's just Animal Crossing. None of them are sexual in any way so as to avoid Ikea Erotica or other things like that), my 3 original stories (also devoid of sex, though there is lots of cursing), and the dozen or so video game guides I am writing (which are sextastic...ly devoid of sex).