2000 Porn Videotapes
From Greenville, North Carolina, comes this tale of a woman who ended up in possession of her former husband’s secret storage unit after a messy divorce. And when she rolled up the metal door, what to her wondering eye should appear but pallets stacked high with VHS porn tapes, thousands of them:
My husband and I recently went through a pretty rough divorce. I ended up getting a key to a storage unit he had been hiding from me for years. Well to my astonishment, I found a collection of no less than 2000 porno tapes on VHS. I went through some of the stacks and discovered Hank, my ex, was into some really kinky stuff. Some of the titles included are:
Donkey Dong and Daisy Dude
Mini Mouse Does Goofy
Ass Pirates 1 through 9
Cum Guzzlers 3 and 5
I’ve known some pretty obsessive porn collectors in my time (and we won’t talk about the boxes of old porn in my storage unit) but 2000 tapes? All I can say is “Dude…”
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He may have been North Carolina’s porn king back in the day.
It would be really cool if this were used to help start or (if it exists) supplement an archive of porn. Those old films are fascinating for several reasons, and I worry about the preservation of some of them.
Paging Jason Scott and the internet archive!
:-D
Well, she can a) Donate them, b) destroy them or 3) sell them. I suppose the real question is which choice will irk her ex the most?
I was once told, by a wise old clerk who had worked in an adult book store for decades, that his clients tended to be men who came in for something that they weren’t getting at home. My guess by this fellow’s wife’s reaction, is that this was precisely the case in this incidence. She was probably too uptight (and judgemental of his interest in erotic material), to share in the enjoyment of it, and his “excess” reflected the corresponding level of her disgust with the idea that sex was something to be shared and enjoyed. With reference to JACK’s comment (#4), I therefore see the option of her keeping the tapes, watching them, and learning about the things which so interested her partner. Who knows, she may pick up a few tips, and this marriage may be saved yet!
If not, well, I hope the unfortunate gentleman finds a healthier new partner to sit on the couch with him, and enjoy his replacement collection…
Whiplash, I wouldn’t be too fast to jump on the “uptight frigid wife” stereotype, because we don’t know enough.
On the one hand, it’s a stereotype because it happens enough for the pattern to be painfully familiar. But on the other hand, it’s one of those stereotypes that has the potential to be harmful; it’s often deployed against women generally to pressure them into having more sex than they want or different sex than they want. So I’ve come to be wary about deploying it unless I think the evidence is pretty damning in a particular case.
Bacchus, if on her jury, I would never vote to convict her in a court of law, on the flimsy evidence presented herein. However, her attempt to embarrass or humiliate her former life partner by publicly publishing his interest in porn (and even his name was given in the link that you provided), tags her as a person I would not trust enough to consider for future marriage material, and I’d say that any man who would dare, deserves what he gets. In my world, there is an undeclared rule that one doesn’t violate in such a crass manner, the privacy of one’s former bedmate.
The extenuating circumstance here, may be if this gent was perhaps a public figure who had taken a political stance against porn, or something of that nature…
As much as I normally prefer the companionship of females over males, from the information we are working with, I would eschew her company in favor if his. I don’t see him as the bad guy here. We wouldn’t be reading about this, if it were a collection of 2000 postage stamps, or even 2000 National Geographic magazines. She has chosen to publicize this because of its titillating nature, because SHE thinks there is a difference, and personally, I believe this is unfairly judgmental.
We would find it unacceptably ungentlemanly, if a man had publicized (in such a circumstance), that his wife had what the average person would consider to be an excessive collection of every size and shape of dildo and vibrator. After such a betrayal of implied trust, what sane woman would consider him for an intimate relationship? Most people may stereotypically assume that surely she must have been archiving them, for posterity with some medical history interest. We assume unfairly that this man was some kind of aberrant individual however, and this too might be a stereotype which could have the “potential to be harmful”.
Considering ErosBlog’s longstanding policy of not judging the sexual preferences and proclivities of others, I see her labeling his taste in porn as “kinky” is indeed strong evidence of her uptight nature, especially if working with the titles listed in your posting, and knowing what I know about North Carolina’s porn laws and Greenville’s community standards.
I understand and appreciate your defense of my generalization however.
Because no self-respecting Ass Pirate would stop at just eight.
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