Man Has 200,000 Pieces In His Porn Collection (PIC TOO!)

[matcom]

<snip>

Mark Rotenberg greets all the waitresses at his local New Jersey diner by name. “They have no idea what I do,” he whispers as we sit down, “or that I’ve got a thousand bucks in my pocket right now. You never know when someone wants to sell some smut.”

Rotenberg is one of the country’s preeminent porn collectors. Four Taschen books have been based on his personal stash—nearly 200,000 pieces and growing. “I want to acquire all that I can afford,” he says. “EBay is like New York to me—it’s the land of temptation. There are vintage-nude-photo auctions ending every 30 seconds.”

Rotenberg became a porn-hound back in Brooklyn Heights in the late seventies when his neighbor—an heirless man who had been hoarding prints, magazines, first editions, and pornography for decades—died. City workers hauled armloads of obviously valuable first editions out of the apartment, but they left everything else to be tossed into the trash. Already something of a pack rat, the then-26-year-old Rotenberg scavenged Cruikshank drawings, Civil War newspapers, signed Picasso lithos, and lots of erotic material. He wasn’t even into the porn at first. It was only after a friend suggested he show his finds to an editor at Screw that he realized there might be money in it.

Today, Rotenberg earns his living from pornographic books and sales on his Website, vintagenudephotos.com. Recently, a single buyer bought $1,400 worth of erotic playing cards, and Rotenberg was once offered $30,000 for a rare film by the early-twentieth-century California photographer Albert Arthur Allen.


http://www.newyorkmetro.com/lifestyle/sex/annual/2005/15064/index.html

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Doesn't anyone collect stamps anymore?

:D

[Orsino]

11. If you want to lick it, it's another quarter. n/t

[no name no slogan]

2. At least he has a hobby

[Shell Beau]

3. I am assuming he isn't married

:shrug: :evilgrin:

[RedCloud]

4. So after seeing all that there is to see and do, several thousand times..

He still wants more?

[GOPisEvil]

5. Smut salesman...I wonder if puts that on his IRS forms.

:D

[Skittles]

10. the correct terminology is SMUT PEDDLER

get it right, David :D

[flvegan]

6. Screw going back to school! I'm starting a porn collection!

It seems to be working for him, and that's a recession proof industry.

[underpants]

7. a hairless man

Sorry there is a joke there but I just can't come up with it.

[hunter]

8. If your weird uncle died, would you want to sort out his porn collection?

I'll bet this guy wasn't "heirless."

[asthmaticeog]

9. Collect, collect, collect, doesn't anyone just fuck anymore?

:shrug:

[Heidi]

12. There's no law against reading

and thinking. At least not yet. :shrug: Thank goodness.

[DS1]

13. Shit, I've got a quarter million on my USB key

:eyes:

[kick-ass-bob]

14. Have you really aged THAT MUCH?!

:hug: