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Using 'Daddy' in a sex context

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JellyPopz · 20/10/2023 21:55

It's always made me uncomfortable, Daddy is what my kids call their father and not what I would ever call a lover.

Starting the 'This Morning Show' and ep 2 the PA comes in and tries to seduce her senior that she is in a relationship with using a baby voice and calling him Daddy.

I'm hoping the whole 'Yes Daddy', 'Give it to me Daddy' nods to something else and isn't fuelling a very sick fantasy?!

Sidenote: pleased to say I have never had a man who requested this.

Can someone enlighten me? It's not like this show was filmed many years ago, it's base story is around Me Too!

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Legendairy · 22/10/2023 15:29

I have never actually heard it used seriously in RL, literally only in comedy scenarios. It wouldn't be for me but I really have no massive issue with anything that consenting adults do together in the privacy of their own bedroom.

Beezknees · 22/10/2023 15:30

Legendairy · 22/10/2023 15:29

I have never actually heard it used seriously in RL, literally only in comedy scenarios. It wouldn't be for me but I really have no massive issue with anything that consenting adults do together in the privacy of their own bedroom.

This basically.

Humidititties · 22/10/2023 15:38

My neighbours refer to each other as mother and father, that's a bit weird too

Gidrich · 22/10/2023 15:39

OneTC · 21/10/2023 12:47

To suggest that there isn't an actual father element to it is fucking bonkers especially when you consider the general aesthetic that goes with it.

I don't really care about what other adults do but thinking about why I don't like something isn't over analysing

What if the man/woman saying daddy didn’t grow up with a father/male parental figure and therefore can’t be thinking about their actual ‘daddy’?

YoureALizardHarry11 · 22/10/2023 15:40

Gidrich · 22/10/2023 15:22

I don’t know about that- I’ve definitely seen several old sitcoms, programmes and films where a married couple refer to each other as ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’ all the time (Bridget jones’ parents and Kimberly’s parents in Coronation st spring to mind), and scenes where you hear giggling and “oh daddy, oh mummy” from outside the door- so clearly it has been part of mainstream culture in the uk in some way.

I wouldn’t do it, but I think in the bdsm community it’s used to denote an authority figure, in the same way ‘sir’ does- it isn’t actually about pretending that person is your father… especially since it can be used towards women.

I thought when couples said ‘’oh, mummy’’ and ‘’oh daddy’’ to each other, they don’t mean THEIR mummy or daddy, but they’re referring to the children’s mummy or daddy, so because the kids use that term it becomes universally used in the house. I wouldn’t do that either, personally.

Each to their own with what they do though I suppose, but from my perspective using daddy in a sex context feels a bit off. Why not just use a more generic term like master?

I guess it would also feel wrong for people who have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their father, given that SA is a lot to do with power and control as well.

YoureALizardHarry11 · 22/10/2023 15:48

Anyone calling anyone mummy is just as bad to me as well, so I’m not just singling out daddy 🤣

Gidrich · 22/10/2023 15:50

YoureALizardHarry11 · 22/10/2023 15:40

I thought when couples said ‘’oh, mummy’’ and ‘’oh daddy’’ to each other, they don’t mean THEIR mummy or daddy, but they’re referring to the children’s mummy or daddy, so because the kids use that term it becomes universally used in the house. I wouldn’t do that either, personally.

Each to their own with what they do though I suppose, but from my perspective using daddy in a sex context feels a bit off. Why not just use a more generic term like master?

I guess it would also feel wrong for people who have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their father, given that SA is a lot to do with power and control as well.

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Each to their own with what they do though I suppose, but from my perspective using daddy in a sex context feels a bit off. Why not just use a more generic term like master?

Some people would be uncomfortable with ‘master’ because of the obvious connotations about slavery.

I don’t think when people use daddy they mean their literal father, they mean male authority figure.

The point I was making was to everyone saying it’s normal and mainstream to use babe or baby for a partner but not mummy or daddy, that they have been used (especially in comedy/for comedy characters) in the mainstream.

Disturbia81 · 22/10/2023 21:20

@YoureALizardHarry11 "I’m aware that people call themselves naughty girls, but that was hardly the point. When used together with ‘’daddy’’ and a childlike voice, it’s perfectly understandable why that conjures up incestuous, abusive, paedophilic images in people’s minds. Especially when the a ‘’daddy’ is seen as the dominant, boss like figure, just as he would be in a father/daughter relationship. It does feel like a sick role play.

I can’t see why some aren’t seeing that side of the coin. Regardless of how it is meant, that terminology shouldn’t be connected with sex in my opinion."

Well said, there's something very wrong with getting turned on by babyish voices and acting innocent etc

brindimo · 22/10/2023 22:55

It might not be your thing but consenting adults do all sorts of things in the bedroom that in the cold light of day might seem sinister or gross. But if they are consenting adults then let it be.

JellyPopz · 22/10/2023 23:23

Catching up and have LOL at some of the pork references. Yes obviously a typo but I ain't against a bit of Red Meat Voyeurism 😳

I've never considered the terms 'Babe/Baby' on the same level, their meanings seem much more contextual and used to convey multiple relationships ships and is said between friends in a non-sexual context. Babe is a word similar to the use of the word "shit" in the UK - see pic.

The baby voice accompanying the use of the term Daddy is not really a step away from its original meaning.

In Deck The Halls christmas movie, a character holders at women dancing on a stage shouting 'who's your Daddy?!'. When his daughter turns around he says "I'm your Daddy" in horror.

Using 'Daddy' in a sex context
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Daisybuttercup12345 · 22/10/2023 23:35

roibustea · 20/10/2023 22:45

I have a friend who sent my a picture of the spread she'd put on for her OH's big birthday; fancy breakfast table, champagne, loads of presents, decorations etc... and in the middle, a card addressed "daddy".

He has no children.

I politely did not mention it but every so often when she talks about him, i remember... 🤢

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My husband had a Daddy card too.
It was from his beloved cat!

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 22/10/2023 23:43

In Deck The Halls christmas movie, a character holders at women dancing on a stage shouting 'who's your Daddy?!'. When his daughter turns around he says "I'm your Daddy" in horror

Because he realised he'd been sexually thinking about his ACTUAL daughter. Which kind of means it was clear he didn't actually want to play out a incest relationship by calling himself Daddy...

Highloww · 22/10/2023 23:52

I suppose sometimes it can be seen as infantilising. I’ve seen it being used in the BDSM scene as ‘daddy’ and the sub is referred to as ‘baby girl’

porridgeisbae · 23/10/2023 00:22

Of course some people do go all out and the female sub dress as a toddler or have a play pen and stuff. But then, they claim that isn't just sexual.

Brightredglass · 23/10/2023 06:58

To suggest that there isn't an actual father element to it is fucking bonkers especially when you consider the general aesthetic that goes with it

That "general aesthetic" isn't practised by everyone who uses the term in a sexual context.

Disturbia81 · 23/10/2023 08:10

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 22/10/2023 23:43

In Deck The Halls christmas movie, a character holders at women dancing on a stage shouting 'who's your Daddy?!'. When his daughter turns around he says "I'm your Daddy" in horror

Because he realised he'd been sexually thinking about his ACTUAL daughter. Which kind of means it was clear he didn't actually want to play out a incest relationship by calling himself Daddy...

Still grim to be perving on women young enough to be his daughter.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 23/10/2023 09:35

This thread reminded me of this song (which is very creepy imo). But as pp said, the whole “daddy” thing doesn’t seem to be new…

Every Baby Needs A Da-Da-Daddy

Marilyn Monroe/Ladies Of The Chorus

https://youtu.be/c_V7vZOckQQ?si=4pAp4r5dBSPSJA8h

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 23/10/2023 09:39

Disturbia81 · 23/10/2023 08:10

Still grim to be perving on women young enough to be his daughter.

That's a different issues
And fwiw plenty of women perv on men young enough to be their sons too

CasperGutman · 23/10/2023 10:06

It's grim. The only way I can see it making sense is in the context of a committed relationship where you're "trying for a baby" and addressing one another as if you have become parents together. But that's absolutely not the way this seems to get used. It's really unsexy to me, as a man*.

*I'm saying this to give context to my views, not because I think it makes them in any way more important!

roibustea · 23/10/2023 10:43

Daisybuttercup12345 · 22/10/2023 23:35

My husband had a Daddy card too.
It was from his beloved cat!

Thank you, I will choose to believe this card was from his cat. The secret cat they never mention and hide all sign of when I visit. I find that notion a lot less disturbing than the sex thing 😂😂

LylaLee · 23/10/2023 10:54

roibustea · 23/10/2023 10:43

Thank you, I will choose to believe this card was from his cat. The secret cat they never mention and hide all sign of when I visit. I find that notion a lot less disturbing than the sex thing 😂😂

Secret cat 😂

CrasyoDrago · 23/10/2023 11:49

Still grim to be perving on women young enough to be his daughter.

Meh, never really got this argument. When I'm 48 my daughter would be 28, so it would be weird for me to find a 28 year old man attractive? I think that's relatively normal age to find attractive , even if you don't date them. Depends how young his daughter was/age he had her I guess

EBearhug · 23/10/2023 23:09

I got to a point where I was thinking (about one of the lifeguards st the local pool,) "I'd have really fancied him in my 20s. I hope his Mum's proud of him." So I recognise the attraction of a younger man, but not as something I'd want to do anything about.

porridgeisbae · 23/10/2023 23:16

I know this is a tangent to the thread but I had a lot of older guys. Now I'm around the age the oldest one was, I'm like 'oh wow, I'm 46, I would never be ok with shagging someone 21.' I would feel totally perverted. I like to think I'd always be imagining what their mum or dad would feel about it. If the person propositioned me I'd be like 'your mum and dad would hate me.'

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