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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Am I in the wrong here?

27 replies

ConfusedWriter08 · 28/08/2024 11:00

Regular MNer, but I’ve name changed to stay anonymous. I know not everyone will ‘get’ it, but I write fan fiction using a website specifically for that purpose. I do it completely anonymously, and in real life not a soul knows about it bar DH. I, specialise, I suppose you could say, in ‘literotica’. I know it’s not for everyone, but there’s a huge following for it, and not to blow my own horn, but I’m good at it. I’m told I’m good at it. I like being good at it. I’m just developing the sort of following I’d need to move some work to Patreon and start to charge for it.
This morning, DH has told me he hates it because it feels like I’m being intimate with other people. I’m baffled by this, because it’s not like anybody knows, it’s fictional stories about fictional characters, posted to an open website, it’s not like I’m sending them to a specific person I know.
He’s adamant that anyone would feel the same way about their spouse writing porn. I’ve said personally I couldn’t care less if he was writing erotica.
AIBU?

OP posts:
sunsetsandboardwalks · 28/08/2024 16:52

I see at least one PP has assumed it’s men reading your stories, and wonder if this is what your DH is assuming when he talks about it feeling like you being intimate with other people. Does he understand that it’s usually women who are reading fic?

Maybe he just doesn't want to think about his wife writing sexual fantasies for anyone to masturbate over, whether male or female?

Literotica has some pretty intense, hardcore stories on there - it's not all romance with the odd mild sex scene. I think it's quite understandable that a partner might find the idea of sharing erotic fantasies online with strangers a bit "odd".

None of that means that OP should stop, but I don't think it's as straightforward as saying that he needs to just get over it.

outdamnedspots · 28/08/2024 21:34

LadyQuackBeth · 28/08/2024 11:18

I can understand that if he is reading it knowing it is you, he probably thinks of it as fantasies and quite intimate. Maybe it makes him worried about your sex life, that things he does will pop up there or he's not doing what you want.

I don't think it's anything you can't reassure him about, he just feels there is part of your sex life he isn't part of, I'm sure you can show him it's totally separate and different with a little bit more communication.

Good reply!

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