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Just found this on family laptop

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Wafflenose · 10/09/2018 17:44

I'm need need of some advice. After work, I sat down to type something in the address bar on Explorer (I was typing Hotmail, to be precise) and as I started typing (literally one or two letters) my search bar suggested 'homosexual anime porn' and 'homosexual manga porn'. I went into our Internet users history and found that over a 30-60 minute period in the middle of the night (Friday or Saturday night, I can't remember) someone has searched for the above, plus manga incest, male on male gay porn and more. It would almost be funny (because of the animal element) if it wasn't so disturbing.

I have two DDs, aged 10 and 13. The younger one has her own laptop which she saved up for, so she doesn't use ours. The older one does use ours to play on and do homework, although at the times that correspond to when she was using it during the day just contain educational sites because she has been doing a history project. Both girls have been learning to draw manga. Little one hasn't heard of homosexual porn or incest, and the big one might have at school. She has never shown any interest in boys, or girls for that matter, but might be curious? If it turns out to be her, we will obviously be having a serious chat and supervising all screen use, because she will have betrayed our trust by going online during the night and googling unsuitable topics.

Then there is DH... we have been married for 20 years and he as straight as straight can be, or so I thought. I guess I am asking how I should approach this, because if it's not him then we need to have a serious chat with our daughter.

Unless there is some kind of virus or malware that generates this kind of thing? (Clutching at straws).

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Haireverywhere · 12/09/2018 10:47

The last thing I'll add is have a look for the current thread "what to make of this?" in relationships.

People we think we know inside and out can lie to us and hurt us and totally surprise us. Don't close your eyes to other possibilities unless you are sure the relationship is strong enough for this not to have meant anything.

Fairenuff · 12/09/2018 10:56

This happened to a friend of mine OP. They had been married for years. Three children. It was one of the children that stumbled across a dick pic on the family computer.

He denied everything. Wasn't him. It was a pop up.

They are now divorced. He is living with his boyfriend.

Your dh searched for gay porn OP. He is probably gay. If you ask him and tell him it's ok, he might open up to you.

AnnieAnoniMoose · 12/09/2018 10:58

Yep. Time to walk away from the thread.

I hate to think what would come up on my iPad after googling things from MN and ending up down worm holes.

It’s EASY to lose 40 minutes down a worm hole, especially at night when you’ve had a few drinks and can’t be bothered moving.

I’ve looked up stuff that I’m curious about, it doesn’t mean I’m going to suddenly start cliff jumping or anything else I might have looked up.

He was open with you, not embarrassed or worried you’d seen it.

It’s really nothing to worry about, in itself. But yes, if he’s struggling you need to talk and sort things out. BUT if it’s YOUR health issue make sure you don’t get rail roaded into doing more than you feel up to it pretending to be better than you are.

Take care 🌷 and hide the thread!!

AnnieAnoniMoose · 12/09/2018 11:02

Her DH searched for gay ANIME porn

FFS if he was gay, or bi, he wouldn’t be searching for that rubbish. He’d be searching for ‘proper’ porn.

But even straight people search for gay porn, it’s curiosity or fantasy, it doesn’t mean anymore than that.

TeaForDad · 12/09/2018 11:16

Ok I think you're a good parent and dw.

Fwiw

ShirleyPhallus · 12/09/2018 11:25

Your dh searched for gay porn OP. He is probably gay.

Plenty of women watch gay porn. Does that make those heterosexual women gay?

ginandnappies · 12/09/2018 12:06

@Fairenuff I'm willing to be bet a lot of money that's just not true.

Plenty of people watch gay porn!!! Jesus Christ.

SlartiAardvark · 12/09/2018 12:14

Your dh searched for gay porn OP. He is probably gay.

I followed links about a film I watched last night & ended up looking at pictures of gangsters with their heads blown off.

I'm neither a wannabe gangster or a wannabe murderer.

I've also looked at gay cartoon porn - still haven't caught The Gay yet....

Fairenuff · 12/09/2018 12:21

I didn't say he would 'catch it' Slarti Hmm

He might not be gay of course, but there a good chance that he is. I agree that you can follow links to different sites but I don't think many straight women actively search for gay porn. They might be curious, yes and might follow some links and end up there but I don't think most straight women would put it in their search bar.

It's nothing to be ashamed of OP. If he is, he is. Better that he comes out and you can decide between yourselves how you both want to live.

ShirleyPhallus · 12/09/2018 15:16

Fairenuff

I have been on MN a lot of years and that post of 12.21 is probably the most ignorant and ill informed pile of bollocks I have read on here. Congrats for your narrow-mindedness Star

Fairenuff · 12/09/2018 15:28

Your opinion Shirley. I think if you're unable to see another point of view on this then you are probably more narrow minded than you realise so congrats to you too Biscuit

ShirleyPhallus · 12/09/2018 15:35

A biscuit! How original!

mydietstartsmonday · 12/09/2018 15:50

Oh gosh what a lot of drama about nothing in particular. I googled Dutch Oven the other day as I heard it on Desperate Housewives....
I have often read something on Mumsnet and googled it because I didn't know what it was. Better to be informed that not informed.

You were right OP to leave it at that.

Ivalueloyaltyaboveallelse · 12/09/2018 15:53

I love anmie. I just wanted to say anmie has all sorts of strange angles in. incest, homosexuality, sexualisation, violence, vampires, and sadomasochist to name a few. Doesn’t mean I’m any of those things but I enjoy all different types of anmie.

Bleedingblood · 12/09/2018 15:54

You think incest is 'forbidden love'???

For your clarity, it is the sexual abuse and rape of your children

CountessVonBoobs · 12/09/2018 16:03

You think incest is 'forbidden love'???

That's not how it is IRL, obviously. But in anime it's almost never parent/child incest. It's more fanart of (as a PP said) Fred and George Weasley getting it on.

That is pretty weird and not a lot of people's cup of tea, for sure. But being curious about it and/or even getting some guilty kicks from it doesn't make you a sexual predator.

In surveys it's consistently found that the most common sexual fantasy among women is rape. The majority of bodice-rippers and romance novels feature nonconsensual sex. Does that mean women who like them are sexual predators or sick in the head? How many women got off to that garbage Fifty Shades, which is dubious as shit, without themselves wanting to be submissive or beaten or have dubiously consensual sex?

theunsure · 12/09/2018 16:08

I was very in to porn at age 13. Alas no internet in those days but I had my sources.

I'd 100% think it is DD.

Either way, I think it's pretty harmless waits to be shot down for thinking that

Bleedingblood · 12/09/2018 16:27

countess i wouldnt have my kids living with a man who googled any kind of incest, no matter what his excuse was

Taylor22 · 12/09/2018 16:38

You understand that as their father you couldn't withhold contact over random shit he's googled right?

MayDayFightsBack · 12/09/2018 16:48

It can also be adult relationships between siblings to be fair - not that I'm in any way advocating that!

Bleedingblood · 12/09/2018 17:06

Over 'shit he has googled?
If that 'shit'is depictions of INCEST, then i think then you could fairly eadily deny contact

I cant believe we are actually having a debate about whether it is ok for a father of young kids to be googling images of incest ffs

CountessVonBoobs · 12/09/2018 17:17

Philippa Gregory, very successful and moderately respected novelist, has written a series of historical novels featuring an erotically described BDSM relationship between a full brother and sister. She is married and has six children and stepchildren.

Should her husband divorce her? Should she be banned from seeing her children or grandchildren? Should every woman who's had a wank over Wideacre be considered a risk to abuse her children? What if one of those women went online afterwards and Googled Weasley twincest? Does it mean she is likely to actively try to have sex with one of her siblings?

Bleedingblood · 12/09/2018 17:36

I assume the novels are about incest between 2 consenting adult?

Anime incest wont be between adults...that it is incest with not be apparent would it in anime form if it was adult incest

I have no idea what Wideacre is, but i know that anyone wanking over child sexual abuse and rape isnt fit to have children

CountessVonBoobs · 12/09/2018 18:04

So, just to be clear, in your previous post having ever typed the word "incest" into Google was abhorrent, but in your most recent one, it's ok to have had sexy thoughts about intercourse between an 18-year-old girl and her brother, and to have written them down to titillate other people? (Wideacre is the name of the novel series.)

Also, why on earth would you think the characters in anime would be children?

Bleedingblood · 12/09/2018 18:18

Urm, no. To be clear, incest to me in all its forms is unacceptable. Its a pretty minimum fundamental standard that people i invite into my life are not sexually aroused by their siblings, mother, father, grandparents or children

You and other posters seemed to be suggesting that these novels were acceptable; as an arguement against me saying that any man who was googling incest, would not be having any contact with my children

That remains my position. I find incest unacceptable. We will have to agree to disagree