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Mercnbeth -> You aren't a "pervert" you're a "Collector" (11/15/2005 10:54:12 AM)
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Remember when the baseball card collecting fad started? I was one of many who whined about mom throwing away my "valuable" collection. Well all those now with wives, significant others, or based upon some posts, 32 and still live with their moms; should let them know to stay away from the porn stash.
There is a lot of value stuffed under mattresses and in secret hiding places.
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The most valuable magazine is the first-ever Playboy, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover ($7,000), and the most prized dirty book is one of the seven remaining original copies of My Secret Life, a Victorian hard-core sex diary ($500,000). But the erotic artifacts most fantasized about are the possibly apocryphal blue movies made by mainstream stars like Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford. If these films do exist, says Rotenberg, their discoverer would make a mint.
A man, Mark Rotenberg, is identified in the article as one of the country's foremost "collectors", has nearly 200,000 items in his growing collection. Living in the New York City area (WHERE ELSE?) he is constantly searching everyplace from eBay to dumpsters in search of pornographic gold. This one time hobby has become Mark's full time occupation. You may suspect he lives alone in a dark basement apartment where he is also the dirty, overweight, handyman; but he has a wife who actually participates in the family business.
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His wife sighs indulgently. She writes the introductions to his books, and her only qualm with the collection is that it has taken over the house. The photos are organized in binders, and the binders are multiplying: Victorian hard-core, Edwardian postcards, fifties cheesecake—which is itself subdivided into blondes, twosomes, threesomes, big breasts, fetish, famous models, Irving Klaw, bondage, whips, Asian, black, and older women. At the request of Dian Hanson, head of Taschen’s Sexy Books division, there’s even a category for dirty feet. “I don’t even keep the Playboys anymore,” says Rotenberg. “How many copies of June ’73 does one person need?”
Stop hiding your porn! Hang it from your walls, and tell anyone complaining that they are a cretin who can't appreciate the value of your display.
(Entire Article: http://newyorkmetro.com/lifestyle/sex/annual/2005/15064/)
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