Hiding some photos

I wonder how can I keep all of my pics in the same LR catalog while hiding certain pics -- such as "hot" pics of my girlfriend -- from a casual browser? Ideally, they'd not show up in any thumbs, details, etc. I'd need to turn a switch to work with them, and shut them close when done. However, I do the DAM workflow by card, and these pics are not the only ones on a card often -- so I'd be hesitant to pluck them out of the natural sequence in which pics were taken -- it would create holes in the camera-assigned file IDs, etc. When showing pics to friends or creating slide shows from the LR, I don't want to fret that those pics would show up. Any ideas?

I use a keyword -
i private,
for any pictures that are not supposed to be seen by foreign eyes. So when I show pictures to others, I quickly type
i !private
into the Find field, and there you are.
In LR2 it would be even easier, since it has Smart Collections.
Still, I don't know how to hide pictures from "casual browsers". Do you let strangers work on your computer?

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Here's what I did:
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