I love porn and own have quite a lot of it (especially considering my penury). Consequently, I also have a lot of porn I don't use and don't know what to do with.
Porn (gay and straight) is big business and a lot of it has been, and continues to be, made. Because of this, while there's a lot of good stuff out there, there's also a lot of crap. And, since, unlike a book, you can't browse through a DVD or video when you're ordering online or buying at your Friendly Neighborhood Porn Shoppe, one often buys porn that one ends up not being into at all. Add to this the porn that just, over time, stops turning you on, and you can see how I can have acquired bags (literally, they're in brown paper bags) of the stuff I don't want.
My question to you, then, dear readers, is what should I do with my old porn? In college, I would give it to my best friend, who went to school in Washington D.C. and was involved in the gay/straight alliance there. She would then distribute it to members of the group, especially (at my insistence) the younger members who may not have had a chance to have gay porn before. But we're all out of school now and all the discarded porn's just piling up. Any suggestions as to what to do with it all?
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Perhaps your blog readers would want some?
Any vintage stuff you have, for instance, can be sent to me for research purposes.
Give it to a charity shop or, if you are too embarrassed, recycle it. Obviously.
Can you sell it on e-bay? (So long as it's in good condition and the pages aren't all stuck together or anything...)
No, no, no, while there are some recyclable magazines (and I have recycled some in the past), most of it is DVDs and videos. Just to clarify.
I'd gladly donate them to charity if you know of some that would be willing to take them, Maxine.
Or I could go with your suggestion, gunn, and try EBay (though, truth be told, I've never gotten into the whole EBay thing).
Not much vintage stuff, gayprof, but I'll have to check; if I run across anything, I'll let you know! (BTW, what is your criteria for "vintage"?)
A charity that takes porn .... That falls into the 'only in America' category!
Well, now is obviously the time to give e-bay a try. I've never done it yet either, but it's worth giving it a go.
I was gonna chime in with gayprof and say that some sexuality educator somewhere probably is doing a journal article on "The Power Differential Relationships in Gay Males: A Study of Pornography from the years 1995-2005." Or something like that. You could always make a donation as an "anonymous benefactor." And then it's a tax write-off! Thanks for stopping by my blog, BTW. I was very honored.
Ooo! Donate them to the Quatrefoil Library in St. Paul: http://www.qlibrary.org.
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