Father-son-relations don’t get much tighter than this.

Over on a Taiwanese internet bulletin board, a young man’s tale of discovering his father’s porn stash has drawn hundreds of comments after he alleged that he was so blown away by the terrible quality of the material that he ran out and bought something better to gift to his old man.

The very thought of making such a discovery is likely to send a shiver down most people’s spine, and few would find themeselves even able to look dad in the eye for a few days having discovered his box of filth, but this dutiful young man maintains that his tale is 100% true…

The story, as originally told on the message board, goes a little something like this…

It was about eight years ago that this happened, when I was just 19. I found the offending material in a cookie tin left near the family computer. Opening up the tin, I found literally dozens of porno DVDs. Since they weren’t mine, and the only other man in the house was my dad, I knew that they had to have been his.

Inquisitive young man as I was, I popped a few into the computer and watched a handful of scenes. While the DVD cases and the images on the covers were of a pretty decent quality, the movies themselves were an altogether different story- these were some seriously butt-ugly girls. I mean straight from the top of the ugly tree, crashing face-first into every branch on the way down. And to make matters worse, all the good stuff had been blurred out.

Judging by the quality and build of the discs themselves, I guessed that they must have been a good ten years old at least.

“Does my dad seriously watch this stuff!?” I thought, over and over again as the blurry blobs of erotica bobbed up and down before my stinging eyes. It actually made my chest feel tight; the thought of my father, the man who raised me and worked so hard to give us a good, happy home, settling in for a little grown-up “me time” with this awful, awful porn.

This went beyond feelings of father-son relations or simply feeling sick at the thought of my dad getting funky on his own; this was a matter of human taste, and I couldn’t bear to think of anyone, let alone my dear ol’ dad, making do with that stuff.

After a few restless hours, unable to get the offending images out of my mind, I resolved to man up and do the right thing- buy my old man some decent porn, eventually settling on a mix of Japanese and western stuff; nothing too hardcore, but of decent quality.

A few days later, choosing a time when my mother was out of the house, I passed the cookie tin to my dad.

Flushing and blabbering something about “a friend at work”, he initially insisted that the pornography had nothing to do with him, but at that point I couldn’t have cared less.

“I’m giving this to you;” I said, showing him the new stuff I’d bought, “If you don’t like it, you can throw it away- that’s fine.”

The movies I’d chosen were free of mosaic blurring or unnecessary censorship, so my dad actually put on his reading glasses to watch it. A week later when I peeked into my dad’s forbidden cookie tin, I spotted a number of new additions: some “horny housewife” type stuff, a couple of middle-aged beauties, and even some western porn in the mix.

Naturally, Taiwanese netizens had plenty to say in response to this anonymous poster’s tale of filial dedication.

“What a wonderful son you are!”

“I just LOL-ed my ass off!”

“Now I feel like a terrible son- I actually threw out my dad’s porno mag stash…”

“I don’t know whether I’m emotionally moved or just laughing at how messed up this is, but I’ve got tears in my eyes…”

“Hey now, what if your old man happened to like those plain-faced gals!?”

But of course, not everyone was so quick to believe the peculiar account, asking suggesting that this may simply be a work of fiction or, in some cases, suggesting that the story “smells a bit bullshitty”.

The writer, however, is quick to defend his epic yarn.

“I swear this is completely true. Even eight years on, I periodically give my dad gifts of new porn. That said, I still have no real idea what kind of thing he’s really into!”

Here at RocketNews24, we’re not entirely convinced that this is a 100% true story, but even if a little poetic licence has been employed here, it’s still a pretty good yarn. Maybe we’re just suckers for a good father-son relationship story?

What do you think, Rocketeers? Could this be the real deal? Would you ever put the awkwardness behind you and come to your father’s aid with an armful of naughty DVDs if you felt that he was being done an injustice by the porn industry? Tell us in the comments below.
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