Subconsciously racist?
The only racist things I have ever heard my father (yes, he is an oldie and a grandfather) utter where anti-semitic stereotypes (along the lines of recommending Jewish accountants). I'm not sure if it counts as ironic that many of his work colleagues would assume him to be Jewish (apparently it's something to do with his nose and dark complexion).

Anyway, I was recently helping him with some clearing out from from his study. I was boxing things up under his direction - stuff for disposal (defunct electrical items, old paperwork), stuff for donation to a charity shop (books, DVDs, working but no longer required electrical items) - and he'd popped out to get some more boxes.

I brought down a couple of unmarked boxes from an otherwise cleared shelf for pre-sorting whilst I waited for him to return and opened the first. It was tightly packed with DVDs, stacked vertically so that only the top of the DVD boxes were visible, two rows of about 20, some still sealed in cellophane. I pulled one out and read the title: "Hustler: Barely Legal". I glanced at the back cover. I started looking through the others. A few more were 'teen' or 'barely legal'. Some were seemingly Arthouse erotica, there were some girl-on-girl ones, plenty of oral and anal ones, there were a couple that really surprised me (imagine a Conga line of men and women in no particular order).

You know how, in some situations, a half-formed thought pops into your head and you have to go over something (an article you are reading, a report you are writing) again so that it crystallises? I started again, looking at the cover of every single DVD in the box. Out of 42 DVDs, three were still in the cellophane. These were the only three that had any image of a non-caucasian on either front or back cover.

I put both boxes back on the shelf without looking in the second and went and put the kettle on.
( wakeupandsmellthebacon, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 12:02, 9 replies)

why did he buy those 3 then in the first place?
or have I completely misunderstood?
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 12:41, closed)

Maybe he was a member of the porn equivalent of a book/movie club?
(tyrellsOwl, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 12:56, closed)

I have no idea
Does he get them by subscription? Did he buy them in bulk? Was he someone's porn buddy? Unwanted gifts?

If I ever find a suitable form of words to ask him how he can watch grot with three blokes and one girl when the girl is not the one in the middle but he can't watch a busty Asian babe getting jizzed on, I'll let you know.
( wakeupandsmellthebacon, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 13:01, closed)

Why bother asking him?
He is bisexual and/or gay, but he doesn't like foreign people in porn.
(username failed moderation, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 13:05, closed)

Perhaps
You should look up the difference between 'foreign' and 'non-Caucasian'.
( wakeupandsmellthebacon, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 13:21, closed)

For the purpose of this
discussion, nothing.
(username failed moderation, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 10:54, closed)

Could be a funny thing to bring up after a few glasses of sherry at christmas
"So Dad, those DVDs of yours..."
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 13:11, closed)

Obviously
He is a student of human nature, and his field of study is the erotic manifestations of Caucasians. Nothing racist here.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 1 Nov 2011, 0:14, closed)

nothing racist
it is just his personal sexual preference. Now if he used his semen to paint pointed hoods on the cover girls that would be...
( sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 2:19, closed)