Selective Private Browsing

I have certain websites I visit that I would rather my wife and family didn't know about. No, it isn't donkey p()rn. It's medically-related, but anyways...
The private browsing feature messes with my passwords and so forth. I would rather not use it. I have been manually deleting history items. I cannot "clear history" as my wife complains, she likes the history.
Is there a way to get safari to not remember certain sites? I think this would be a good feature to implement. There could be a preference pane for history exclusions and you could just type in the urls of sites you do not want to receive cookies from or have placed into the history.
I could carry on the manual deletion, but it is arduous...
Message was edited by: dan lett

Greetings,
There is no way to accomplish what you ask. The easist solution is to simply create a separate user account for your wife, and then she will have to login to it so all her browsing and other activity will be private, and if you change the password for your account, she won't be able to log into your account and find those medical sites or images.

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