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Husbands chastity cage

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BeShyPlumLeader · 18/09/2025 21:21

I recently found a metal chastity cage (for a males anatomy) in my husbands cupboard. Obviously a bit of a shock.

For background - marriage isn't good, no sex for over 2 years, separate beds, talk of separating. Stayed together because of the kids tbh. I wouldn't be surprised if he was getting it elsewhere tbh. But a .... cage!? Wtf...

What would u think? I don't want to tell him I've found it (yet)

OP posts:
dizzydizzydizzy · 19/09/2025 10:28

BeShyPlumLeader · 18/09/2025 21:43

Well this is my thinking. I'm being a bit strategic here because I want to see if I find anything else.

In answer to your question - no I don't think being in the same house and being so separate is the best thing for the kids. Although we do not really argue terribly in front of them - we do not have a relationship with each other and he agrees that it is setting a bad example for the kids. They seem oblivious to any issues though. He is totally avoiding in discussing any issues, so I have told him we need to talk with a mediator present about how we separate. Which he has agreed to.

But this latest find has obviously shocked / thrown me... just wondered what others thought

Sadly I doubt your DCs will be oblivious. My DC1 at age 6 announced to some visitors “Daddy shouts at Mummy and she doesn’t like it.” It’s not like it was a daily occurrence. At that point it was only occasional. We did actually talk to each other in a civil manner most of the time, even towards the end. (He was a narcissistic abuser who was big on coercive control)

PestoHoliday · 19/09/2025 10:23

swimsong · 19/09/2025 10:04

The people who don't find it credible have likely led very sheltered lives.

Me! I have led a very sheltered life. And I am thinking the heavens for it while reading this thread!

To scared to Google the weird rodent/willy cage or look up Locktober and fetlife, I think I'll retreat to the quiet calm of the gardening board.

Best of luck getting rid of your stb-ex, OP.

Sam390 · 19/09/2025 10:22

RubyFunday · 19/09/2025 08:22

And yet your biggest immediate worry is that he has a sex toy? Try to picture the responses if he posted a thread about finding his wife's vibrator. He'd be torn to absolute shreds on here. You must be able to see that surely?

Edited

If a bloke posted a thread about finding his wife's vibrator then the response would be........And? He's not going to be torn to shreds, he's going to be told she's perfectly entitled to some me time and he needs to get over himself.

Finding a cock cage is a whole other ball game. A penis and ball game to be exact.

SleeplessInWherever · 19/09/2025 10:20

SnoopyPajamas · 19/09/2025 10:15

Is your teenage daughter also his teenage daughter, OP?

I ask because all the signs point to him being quite heavily into fetish, and I would be very uncomfortable having an unrelated teenage girl under the same roof as him, if that's the case. He's likely perving on her, at the very least. "Teenage" and "step-daughter" content is rife in porn.

Sorry but this is ridiculous.

Being into kink or fetish does not make someone a paedophile.

SnoopyPajamas · 19/09/2025 10:15

BeShyPlumLeader · 18/09/2025 21:56

Well... perhaps not lol

But the man refuses to engage with me about separating unless I back him into a corner, and when I do he will then start to tell me all the things I (and my teenage daughter) do wrong. He is, in his eyes, perfect and can do no wrong. Yet he has bondage equipment sat in his wardrobe, hidden but not particularly out of reach of our small children if they decided to go hunting.

So forgive me for being slightly curious about other people's opinions on it ay?

Is your teenage daughter also his teenage daughter, OP?

I ask because all the signs point to him being quite heavily into fetish, and I would be very uncomfortable having an unrelated teenage girl under the same roof as him, if that's the case. He's likely perving on her, at the very least. "Teenage" and "step-daughter" content is rife in porn.

ForNoisyCat · 19/09/2025 10:11

RubyFunday · 19/09/2025 08:26

No she doesn't. Anymore than you'd be telling him that he has to have the conversation if he found her sex toy.

I don’t think women generally hide their sex toys, and if they’re living a false life it’s demeaning to the one that doesn’t know what’s going on.

swimsong · 19/09/2025 10:04

BeShyPlumLeader · 18/09/2025 22:04

If you read the thread u would see that I did post a link to it but MN blocked it!

Why is everyone so suspicious on MN? Why on earth would someone make something like this up??

The people who don't find it credible have likely led very sheltered lives.

Cantbleedingcope · 19/09/2025 10:03

Well I sincerely hope my DP doesn’t go through my google search history!!!

I think you’ve all got it wrong though - he’s clearly got it for transporting bananas

Dragonasaurus · 19/09/2025 09:51

FOJN · 18/09/2025 22:45

Were the keys with it? I'd be so tempted to say nothing and swap the key (if you can find one that looks the same) and wait to see what happens.

This is inspired - it might make him much more willing to facilitate the divorce…. 😂

JFDIYOLO · 19/09/2025 09:50

It does seem that you live separate lives in the same house.

Maybe time to have a business meeting with him to decide the way forward. Are we formally split up?

Sex toys whatever they are just need to be kept where nobody can find them when there are kids in the house.

And maybe stop snooping in his wardrobe.

TallulahBetty · 19/09/2025 09:43

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 18/09/2025 21:24

Is it definitely a chastity cage? Do you have any pets? Could it be to transport a small rodent?

Bit of a shock for you but it sounds like you may soon be going your separate ways so I'd decide beforehand how much of an issue this is for you.

Sorry but this made me howl

Could it be to transport a small rodent? 😂😂😂

Needlesnah · 19/09/2025 09:43

Cucy · 19/09/2025 08:04

So you would be ok with her DH going through her personal things?
You’d be ok with him taking a photo of her sex toy, trying to upload it on a public forum and have random men degrade and shame her for her sexual interests?

Because all the posters who are condoning this behaviour are also implying that it would be perfectly fine for her DH to do to her.

I can just imagine if this was a man starting a thread about OPs double ended dildo.

There is no evidence of cheating.
And I’m not sure why OP would snoop and try and find evidence of cheating when the relationship is already dead anyway.

If you have a decent relationship but suspect cheating then yes you would want to know.

But if the relationship is dead and then you suspect cheating on top - then just end it already. It doesn’t matter if you have physical proof or not.

Well, to start it’s an anonymous forum - she hasn’t taken it down to the village square.

As to going through things - I’m not that fussed tbh, if the relationship is already this bad.

I would have carried on stupidly trying to save my marriage, without the proof snooping gave me. I spent a couple of years trying in vain to save something that couldn’t be saved because I knew something was wrong but not what. I didn’t even entertain the worst case scenario because I honestly don’t think he would cheat. The worst case scenario in my case was various affairs, at the same time a long term ‘girlfriend’ (his term), prostitution and endless, endless lap dancing bars. Once I started to get an inkling that there was more then just the stress of young children /difficult jobs at play, that he might actually be cheating, he lied and made me feel stupid for questioning him, at every turn. Every time I (stupidly) asked him.

I wanted to believe him, I wasn’t going to end the relationship because the trust was shaky. I don’t believe that the minute the trust is gone you walk out the door and break up a family. There are many reasons to doubt someone, you don’t give up on the relationship without processing all the angles. Proof finally gave me the strength to do something. Sometimes people need something physical to give them the push to change their situation.

Anyway. To my way of thinking there are sex toys, and then there are sex toys…

TattyBluebell · 19/09/2025 09:36

I think I have lived a very sheltered life too! I have never seen or heard of a chastity cage. I don't want to Google it otherwise I will get pop ups and adverts on my pages forevermore. 🤣🤣

Cucy · 19/09/2025 09:34

MerryGrimaceShake · 19/09/2025 09:15

Bit of an aside here but it sickens me how many of you consider finding an obect in your own fucking house that you pay for and live in as snooping.

No. It's not fucking snooping even if it's in your "husbands" bedside drawer 🙄

Wow really?!

I would really struggle if I had absolutely no privacy.

My bedside drawers are completely mine and I would find it so intrusive for someone to go through them.

I wouldn’t even go through my teens drawers, let alone another adults.

If it’s all someone else’s stuff then there’s absolutely no reason why anyone needs to go in there.

I think everyone needs to have their own private space.

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 19/09/2025 09:28

My instinct is he is paying for sex and power-play forms part of the kink. Time to separate properly OP.

Thelnebriati · 19/09/2025 09:21

I'm always astonished at the posters who are unable to touch their own genitals. Apparently masturbation is off the menu but it completely normal to put your dick in an actual cage to control an erection.

MagpiePi · 19/09/2025 09:21

Winteriscoming80 · 19/09/2025 09:18

Maybe he’s told someone at work or family he’s not had sex for ages so they bought him a chastity belt as a joke?

…which any reasonable man would put straight in the bin.

Winteriscoming80 · 19/09/2025 09:18

Maybe he’s told someone at work or family he’s not had sex for ages so they bought him a chastity belt as a joke?

MerryGrimaceShake · 19/09/2025 09:15

Bit of an aside here but it sickens me how many of you consider finding an obect in your own fucking house that you pay for and live in as snooping.

No. It's not fucking snooping even if it's in your "husbands" bedside drawer 🙄

SleeplessInWherever · 19/09/2025 09:11

PencilsInSpace · 19/09/2025 09:08

You admit you’ve not had sex in 2 years and so he is going to easily get an erection which is embarrassing, so it’s very likely that he thought this would help with that problem.

😂This is almost as funny as the small rodent suggestion.

If we’re all supposed to believe that in the last 2 years he’s never been near his own penis, I’ve got a rat cage to sell you. 😂

PencilsInSpace · 19/09/2025 09:08

Cucy · 19/09/2025 07:08

YABVU as are the majority of the posters on this thread.

But it’s good old sexism from MN again and so it’s to be expected.

You should not be snooping through his personal items.
And no you should not be confronting him about his sex toy.

He should also not be snooping through your personal things or confronting you about your sex toys - but apparently that would be ok according to all of these comments 🙄

You admit you’ve not had sex in 2 years and so he is going to easily get an erection which is embarrassing, so it’s very likely that he thought this would help with that problem.
He may have wanted to use it for masturbating purposes as a bit of fun.

I think it’s pretty sad that your relationship is so awful but you’re waiting on proof of whether he’s cheated or not to actually leave.

Forget about this for now as it’s not proof of cheating in any way, ignore the posters who just love someone else’s drama and creating imaginary scenarios and just focus on what will make you happy and end the relationship today.

You admit you’ve not had sex in 2 years and so he is going to easily get an erection which is embarrassing, so it’s very likely that he thought this would help with that problem.

😂This is almost as funny as the small rodent suggestion.

Nolongera · 19/09/2025 09:07

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 18/09/2025 21:24

Is it definitely a chastity cage? Do you have any pets? Could it be to transport a small rodent?

Bit of a shock for you but it sounds like you may soon be going your separate ways so I'd decide beforehand how much of an issue this is for you.

It could be both.

PencilsInSpace · 19/09/2025 09:05

BeShyPlumLeader · 18/09/2025 22:46

Also - no, I was 100% snooping and where I found it I'd have no excuse for going so... I'd have to fess up to snooping if I said anything

In that case, put the toy mouse in it, put it back exactly as you found it and never say a word.

Littlejellyuk · 19/09/2025 09:02

PencilsInSpace · 19/09/2025 09:01

What happens if they need a wee?

My sentiments exactly. 😆 🤣 😂
maybe he will just have a piss stained caged? 🤔

PencilsInSpace · 19/09/2025 09:01

What happens if they need a wee?