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Can't stop: Indonesian porn hoarders and addicts try to break the habit
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Flatten the curve: PornHub encouraged people to stay home by giving away access to their premium services during the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic (Unsplash/Franco Alva).jpg (Unsplash/Franco Alva)
Porn hoarders talk about consuming large amounts of porn and why it is almost impossible to quit
In 1987, 10-year-old Zed, not his real name, was helping his parents clean around the house when he came across a large cardboard box his father meant to throw away. Out of a fourth grader’s curiosity, he opened the box and found his heart racing as he browsed through the contents.
Evolving mediums
The box was filled with piles of Playboy magazines, displaying almost-bare models in risqué poses on the covers. Feeling something unfamiliar with the stimulation from the magazines, he decided to sneak a couple of them into his room. It was his first encounter with pornographic material.
“Dad was a graphic designer, so he had access to a lot of printed material back then,” said Zed, 45, speaking to The Jakarta Post on Dec. 22, 2022. That printed material involved quite a heap of racy prints ranging from the pin-up inserts in art books and suggestive illustrations in architecture and design magazines to soft-core pornographic images.
However, his father had been getting rid of his stash of magazines that day because he felt it was somehow getting “obsolete”. “He then moved to stash Betamax videotapes,” said Zed, stored with pornographic films. “There were multiple large cupboards of them. All filled with porn Betamax [videotapes].” Zed, who somehow managed to gain the key to his father’s porn stash during high school, would often binge-watch through the collection with his friends. “Free flow [of porn],” said Zed.
Floppy no more: In an era where people exchange data in floppy disks in the 90s, Zed and his network exchange porn through docking 5 terabyte hard drives onto each others' computers (Unsplash/SJ).jpg (Unsplash/SJ)
