Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to be anoyed about dp's use of porn?

31 replies

namechangepornquestion · 15/05/2014 12:00

I have name changed as I have real life friends on mumsnet and I don't want to share this with people who know me/us.

I found some porn on my dp's phone yesterday, it was video he had downloaded, nothing speacial just a standard porn video.

I was trying to uplaod a photo of our child onto his facebook, we are very open with each other's phones, I often upload videos/photos onto his facebook if I grab his phone before mine. The porn video came up along side the photos I had just taken of dc.

I looked at his download folder and there were 4 other videos he had downloaded in the last 6 months.

I'm pregnant, dp didn't want to have with me in the 1st tri (he felt the same when I was pregnant previously) he seems to like my changing shape but not relaly find me sexy, we have had sex a couple of times in the last couple of months but probably once a month, as I get bigger I expect things will get even quieter in terms of sex until I am desperate for the baby to come out, then we will hopefully have lots of sex as that is what helped evict the last baby Some of the videos were downladed before I became pregnant so it isn't just a recent thing.

I am not sure how I should feel, I feel sad that I'm not enough for him, I feel a bit disapointed that he would support an industry which is not so respectful to women (although the films were amature and self filmed, but then that makes me think maybe the women in the films don't even know, hopefully they do know and did it for fun) I am glad that he is not feeling the need to have sex with other women. I obviously don't have the right to demand he does or doesn't do anything with his own body/sexuality.

What is the reasonable emotional response to your partner looking at porn? I don't want to under/over react.

OP posts:
kali110 · 15/05/2014 14:40

Some couples are happy with porn in their relationship and some are not. Both views are fine.
Porn in a relationship doesnt make it unhealthy.
Glad you're going to have a conversation op, hopefully you'll feel much better afterwards.

DownstairsMixUp · 15/05/2014 14:56

I think it's sad he doesn't find you sexy just because you are pregnant. Has he actually said this to you or you just get the impression? The porn thing would bother me tbh but as everyone else has said, it's about how you feel. Some people don't really care about what they watch but there's a lot of threads on here with very valid reasons why women dislike porn which I won't mention here as it will end up a porn vs no porn debate!

JockTamsonsBairns · 15/05/2014 14:59

Op, you seem unsure of your own personal boundaries in your relationship. You'll never get a definitive answer from this thread, it doesn't exist. It's what you think and feel, not anyone else.

Lots of women watch porn and enjoy it. Some watch it, and find they didn't enjoy it. Plenty of women couldn't give two hoots if their partner watches it. Others, like me, see it as a deal breaker. That is, I personally prefer not to be with someone who supports an industry which commodifies and exploits women.

I'm happy with my stance on it, you need to work out a stance which you're happy with.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 15/05/2014 16:52

I'm not interested in a man who'd rather watch porn than have sex

Me neither.

namechangepornquestion · 15/05/2014 17:55

The not sexy whilst pregnant thing is more my interpretation of the situation, he tells me how beautiful the bump is and he's affectionate just not in a sexual way.

It's interesting to hear that porn would be completly unacceptable in your relationship, there seems to be a real spread of opinions which makes me feel like however I approach the situation with dp it won't be unreasonable or wrong.

OP posts:
JeanSeberg · 15/05/2014 19:40

Was the cycle the same in previous pregnancies? What happened after the 12w scan those times?

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread