Just found this on family laptop

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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).

If your laptop is signed into Google automatically, and so is your DHs phone, then the Google default is to synchronise search terms through all Google accounts
Op said it was the address bar of explorer, so no google syncing.

I think it's DH because teenagers just don't wake up in the middle of the night - they sleep like babies.

This is not my experience at all.
We got a PC when I was 11 and I did search porn etc.

I've seen a lot of fan fiction written by pre teens and teens.
The reality is they have an entire world at their finger tips.

The most dangerous thing about the internet is how naïve adults are.

This thread is a perfect example.

Taylor22 I agree with you entirely. Parents underestimate what young people can and do look up on the internet.

Your eldest could have come across this by accident and then become curious. Or, she could have chatted to school friends about her innocent drawings and then they could have mentioned this stuff. I would suspect the eldest dd because she’s at secondary school.

(If it was her) I don’t know that I would be too cross with her, particularly if she admits it. Teenagers get curious and she was finding stuff out in a relatively harmless way. Also teens make mistakes and need to know that you have their back if they do. Apparently it is wrong to confiscate their devices for this sort of infringement. It will cause them not to bring problems to you because being without devices is socially very bad for teens.

In terms of the dh and gay porn, I think I would expect him to be looking for images of people rather than cartoons if indeed he was gay.

When I found a gay porn virus on my computer we had no idea how it got there.

Six years later now adult and openly gay son admitted it was him!

Ask your daughter. Explain it is not wrong to be gay or to be curious, but maybe have a talk about the incest element, that’s not good.

I can't see it being a 12 year old girl either. She has her own laptop so surely she would just use that.

@CormoranStrike it's actually very well written about in fan fiction.

Not my thing at all. But it's not as rare as people on here think.

Are any of your phones connected to Google too? My phone is the same google account on my laptop, so all my searches appear on both my phone and laptop regardless of which devices are used for a search. DS amazon fire is connected to my google account.

The same goes for my DH, his phone is connected to his laptop.

I hope you find out who it is, I'm not sure who it could be but DH reckons his money is on your DH based on the time of the search.

I hope this turns out ok for you OP.

Oh God, When I was 13 I was reading and watching all sorts of things that I bet my parents wouldn’t have thought I knew about.... it’ll be your DD!

I would suspect 13 yo has come accross the terms through peers, knows it is something she doesn't want to ask you about, but also wants to find out what they mean so has googled it in middle of night. Once you have spoken to dh, it would be worth chatting to her, but remember she might not be actually wanting to watch this kind of stuff, just find out what people at school are talking about.

Surely the DH would delete the history if he went to the effort of getting up in the night to look, whereas the DD probably wouldn’t think to do that

Ahhh yaoi haven’t thought about that in years.

Yes when I was 13/14/15 read many naruto yaoi fan fics.

I used to work in an indi bookstore that sild manga when i was a student. Yes 13 year olds talked about gay manga porn and hentai and it was very popular with girls. Deffo DD thats searched it.

Sound more like the DD to me, thinking back to when I was 13

I used to listen to to that pirate radio in the middle of the night when I was thirteen, nowadays I guess they are on their phones or laptops.

1. It would be quite funny if it was the ten year old and she did it to get her sister into trouble. Highly unlikely but some children are incredibly devious.

1. What us the liklihood of a grown man suddenly developing an interest in cartoon porn. Gay inscest stuff at that.

1. School just started. My money is on a child from school talking about it and eldest daughter being curious and checking it out.

Explain it is not wrong to be gay....

I wouldn't assume anything. The vast majority of girls and women who are into art and writing of this type are straight. Or were, back in my day in fandom, anyway.

Wouldn't your DH have searched for Yaoi or Hentai if he was going to look for stuff like this?

In my mind, it seems unlikely to have been either of them, but it must have been one of them.

Your DD hasn't been watching Yuri on Ice or anything? It's really popular and could be considered Yaoi, I suppose. I guess it might have sparked some curiosity?

Just checked on AO3, and "yaoi" has 11759 works with that "tag". (And I'd put money on half of them having been written - badly - under the influence of rampant teenage hormones).

Back when I was a teenager, pre-internet, we had to make do with actual printed words - but Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper were very popular, and got passed around - and funnily enough, they all fell open at the naughty bits!

I’d say it’s almost certainly your dd. Curiosity and wonder abound. I was very interested in homosexuality at her age (I’m straight) and lots of other things, like incest and so on, that I didn’t quite fully grasp.
I think it’s normal to explore in this way.

More likely to be DD.

There is something quite romantic about 'male on male' forbidden love type stuff when you are in your teens.
And I was a massive insomniac at that age. Would have been unusual for me to be asleep at that time.

If they knew their stuff, they would know "homosexual anime" is called "yaoi". And the porn bit for anime is "hentai". There are, sadly, soooo many sidebar porno ads for this stuff on manga and anime sites, it's compeltely inescapable.

So what I mean is, whoever it is is not yet so deep in they know specifically what the genres are.

My Mum was clearing out some old stuff of mine and found some Mills and Boon novels, on the inside covers of which I had noted the page numbers for all of the rude bits! We did laugh, but I am sure she would have been shocked if she'd known at the time.