So, my roommate and I recently encountered the problem of what to do with old playboy magazines. Has anyone had this problem before? We weren't quite sure what to do. Logically, you should just throw away old magazines when you are done reading (or looking at) them. And this is what I normally do with sports, business, or any other magazine I have. But these things can looked at over and over again. The pictures really don't get old, and you can look at the same one time and time again without getting tired of it. You can't really really an article more than once, unless you're doing research, trying to find a specific part to prove a point, or you just plain forgot it or didn't understand it after the first time.
Sure, you get new magazines to look at, with new people people in new settings. But that's not the point. Do we really want to be the guys that threw away old porn? You can't really give it away can you? It's not like a video, which can be passed on, and maybe even copied.
So, not wanting to throw it away and waste, and not wanting to give it to any of our friends, here is what we came up with: we decided to take the magazines, and put one under the door of random neighbors in our apartment building. Kind of like a late holiday gift. Sure, this could turn out to be a terrible idea, and there could be many angry residents. But just imagine the kids that find it before their parents, or curious girlfriends who get ideas for their boyfriends, or the lonely single people who need a little warmth and comfort on a Friday night. It's like the gift that keeps on giving. We don't want to be selfish. Everyone should get to enjoy this! And hopefully these people will turn around and give it to someone else when they acquire too much. Maybe we just started something like a chain letter. Wouldn't that be awesome? The porn ladder!
So to those of you out there that have received random magazines under your door, and to those of you that someday will receive a magazine under your door, let me just say: you're welcome.
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And on this is what they should have based the movie Pay it Forward. That said, my strategy is slightly different. My peak porn possession days were through high school; I accumulated all of my non-computer porn by the age of 17. I am not nearly as benevolent as Mr. Awesomestein, so I kept everything in an old zip-up notebook, which I threw in the basement.
Fast forward 8 years later, I was in my parents' basement looking through old books, and I find a zipped up notebook. What was in the notebook? Jenny McCarthy and Pamela Anderson, just waiting to say hello again. So i made a gift to myself as a teenager, and the gift is still giving 8 years later, even if I don't look at the magazines for 2 hours at a time.
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