What I'm really curious about though, is who in your life knows you come here? Spouses, girl/boyfriends, friends, family, just you? How do they feel about it?
I don't know really, I haven't told anyone directly. I'm not really a very private person. I work closely with quite large numbers people for long hours everyday, so when I get home I really enjoy some quite space.
I am very happy for friends/family to use my computer at home when they are staying here. Of course I don't have people that I don't trust here or people that are in the slightest bit judgemental about anything, let alone me.
My feeling has always been that if people want to go snooping around then they can, it doesn't really affect me negatively, but they have to live with what they find. I may or may not choose to discuss it with them further, I am certainly not the kind of person who would change my behaviour in this regard. That said of course I go out of my way to be polite, and respectful, but my mind is very clear about the boundaries.
Everyone who knows me, and works with me, understands that I am not interested in their opinions about anything unless I ask for it. I find life is much easier that way. It helps me stay sane. Well, what I call sane.
It is very clear in my mind that although people have the democratic right to have an opinion, they also have the right to be stupid, and ignorant, and frequently excercise it. Then they feel they have the right to inflict it on the rest of us.
I find the tyranny of mediocrity and ignorance is generally the result of a misunderstanding about the rights that people think they have. I assert my right to care for my mental health. Well that is my explanation and I'm sticking to it.
So the answer to the questions posed are: 1. I don't know and 2. It hasn't been something I have ever thought about. They are probably fine.
Oh and a further thought about kids and parents. Obviously late adolescence is a time when kids can't live with their parents and can't live without them.
Of all the negative things one could be doing, I think your parents should be pleased you aren't spending time on the net with ideas, and people, who are truly evil and dangerous. Lord knows there is plenty to choose from in that regard.
You can show some regard for their feelings by cleaning up the computer when you have finished, using it when they aren't around, inviting them to look around the site. Perhaps be more discrete about your pictures, out of respect, not out of shame, until you get your own computer. You might start by discussing some of the replies to these questions with your mother, and giving an indication of the more conspicuous personalities here who are fun, talented and thoughtful.
Parents are often afraid of things they don't understand, so one can become compassionate about that. If it is their computer in their house, then that is an important factor, and deserves some respect.
If they look around the site, and have any concerns, then I'd certainly reply to a pm from them. I realise this is unlikely, but as you know there are many extremly accomplished, educated, decent people here, who are in fact well regarded in their communities. Large penises are equally distributed throughout society.
Obviously the answer to all this really is to develop your own independence, get your own computer and place to live one day, and not to stop being who you are, and living your own life. I'm sure you can accommodate each others' feelings until then.
In my own life I had very liberal parents with liberal friends. A friend of my mothers had a cabin that I stayed in every year from the age of 14 (I'm 41 now). It was full of books about research and thinking about human sexuality. Not pornography. Research reports by Kinsey, books by Havelock Ellis, Freud.
I am concerned that young people today seem have to little access to good information, (despite what the net can offer, and joyfully living in the information age) to thoughtful, and well researched information regarding an important part of their own lives. This information is important in coming to understand people who are different to us, as well as our own experience ,within the context of broader human experience, and thinking.
What is hard for your parents may be the fact that they can't ever control your life as they did when you were younger, and stick to the "community standards" that they are familiar with. The world has changed. If their motivation is to protect you, then you can talk that through.
However, if they want to make you think like them, well it's too late, isn't it. The only action left on your part, in this case, is a dignified and respectful withdrawal from their world, into one that you can create for yourself, as your own life develops.
If you alienate each other, you will both lose what you are trying to have, an understanding, and supportive relationship with each other.
There will be times when young people have to make the break, my own experience is that parents are programmed to forgive, and mellow as they get older. Even if you upset them a bit, if they are half way decent, they will forgive you in time. I hope that my hopefulness is justified. Good luck with sorting it out.