I can only imaging what a teenager is able to amass these days with TB hard drives and what others might think when they go through it. From a security perspective if [they] suspect that [you] have a porn collection would it be prudent to keep a small and neutral porn collection somewhere easily found on their system? With the percentage being so high they (parents) might keep looking until they find something.
What if you occasionally like some of the more unusual things, off the top of my head "women with goats" I think we can agree you don't want even your most open minded best friend finding this. So you make a more obvious easier to find folder with more acceptable videos as a decoy.
I wouldn't mind. If they snoop around my PC and are shocked by what they find (although I highly doubt that they would) then they should deal with it.
If your friends are very religious or something I can understand why you'd want to spend extra effort to hide stuff. But even then if they don't want to know they shouldn't be opening a folder called "porn".
What is the advantage for those who want to watch erotic materials in storing pornography? Streaming it is easy, safe, and is harder to catch from the individual computer, and the supply of different porn materials is essentially unlimited? I never really understood this.
My guess is that porn downloaders, like may other media downloaders (warez, music, videos, etc.), have a hoarding/pack-rat mentality. All too often I see people amassing various collections of digital media so huge, they'd never in a lifetime be able to consume it all.
The same issue as with most services: you can't be certain it'll be accessible tomorrow. Maintaining a local archive of your data is always a good idea.
I can only imaging what a teenager is able to amass these days with TB hard drives and what others might think when they go through it. From a security perspective if [they] suspect that [you] have a porn collection would it be prudent to keep a small and neutral porn collection somewhere easily found on their system? With the percentage being so high they (parents) might keep looking until they find something.