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To want a South American husband

228 replies

Lostthebubblewand · 25/10/2025 21:10

Bored of dating. Just thinking how great it would be to ship in or import some sort of instant husband like via Amazon. Obviously they would have to consent too lol. No terrible unrealistic expectations nor would they need to be anything other than reliable, friendly and a bit of a laugh.
I wouldn’t even care if he had affairs.
Who would you marry if you had the choice? I’m going through a bit of a reggaeton phase hence the fetishisation of Latino men, I know it’s appalling. But I also think they would make good husbands. Plus be good looking.

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Brenda34 · 26/10/2025 13:39

StayClass · 26/10/2025 11:18

A horse. You just need a horse, or maybe a German Shepherd.

This kind of thing?

To want a South American husband
AUsernameChangeorTwooo · 26/10/2025 13:39

Swiftasthewind · 26/10/2025 12:53

I recall I read a study in a magazine back a few years back and they ranked men from all the countries in the world and British men came right at the bottom! My younger self was surprised but with age it has become absolutely clear that they weren’t wrong! One of the biggest unseen advantages of immigration is all the hunky foreign men that are instantly accessible and I just love it so much!

Not a surprise. Most are awful at sex, enough for it to be a stereotype really. I wonder if it is abroad! In fact I’ve heard of men finding pleasing a woman a turn off!

Plenty are misogynistic and I think in worse ways than described in the thread.
Obviously a personal taste thing but I think many are very feminine these days - not for me. Personally I find a man who wants to take care of/ provide for his family (wife & kids) extremely sexy.
And just in my experience they lack a certain charisma and expect women to fawn at their feet (and we often do??).

Perhaps immigration will cause British men to pull their socks up!!

Yes not all British men - but vast majority!

Brenda34 · 26/10/2025 13:40

I have no idea why his head's cut off. I didn't do that deliberately.😳

Swiftasthewind · 26/10/2025 13:53

AUsernameChangeorTwooo · 26/10/2025 13:39

Not a surprise. Most are awful at sex, enough for it to be a stereotype really. I wonder if it is abroad! In fact I’ve heard of men finding pleasing a woman a turn off!

Plenty are misogynistic and I think in worse ways than described in the thread.
Obviously a personal taste thing but I think many are very feminine these days - not for me. Personally I find a man who wants to take care of/ provide for his family (wife & kids) extremely sexy.
And just in my experience they lack a certain charisma and expect women to fawn at their feet (and we often do??).

Perhaps immigration will cause British men to pull their socks up!!

Yes not all British men - but vast majority!

Also quite ugly as well. This might sound a bit crass but I find British men have a sort of, I don’t know like an inbred look, that’s what my friend once described it as and once she said that I could not unsee it!

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 15:09

Westfacing · 26/10/2025 12:54

I honestly don't think there is any racism on this thread - I'd be first to say so if there was.

It seems to be a genuinely light-hearted view of men from around the world - not based on their race but on perceived stereotypes as to their behaviour. Lots of women are happily married to men from next door/overseas; or unhappily as the case may be!

Fetishising men based on their ethnicity is extremely racist. Everyone seems to think that because the conclusion to their posts is pro the non-white race then it's fine.

Posts like 'I just want to book a flight to somewhere like Nigeria to hook up with as many black men as possible in two weeks. I'd be too ashamed to tell anyone when I got back though' are racist and if anyone doesn't realise that then they are probably racist as well

JHound · 26/10/2025 15:15

NoUserNameNeeded · 25/10/2025 22:43

So a cheat. You don’t care about yourself much do you.

Cool xenophobia.

JHound · 26/10/2025 15:17

PeonyPatch · 26/10/2025 08:19

Yes, they are Caribbean. But I associate Reggaeton with Jamaica? I didn’t realise there was Spanish reggae…

Reggae and reggaeton related but not the same (reggaeton is influenced by Reggae). Reggae is Jamaican but definitely not Reggaeton.

PeonyPatch · 26/10/2025 15:21

JHound · 26/10/2025 15:17

Reggae and reggaeton related but not the same (reggaeton is influenced by Reggae). Reggae is Jamaican but definitely not Reggaeton.

aye, okay… thanks for clarifying!

Westfacing · 26/10/2025 15:28

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 15:09

Fetishising men based on their ethnicity is extremely racist. Everyone seems to think that because the conclusion to their posts is pro the non-white race then it's fine.

Posts like 'I just want to book a flight to somewhere like Nigeria to hook up with as many black men as possible in two weeks. I'd be too ashamed to tell anyone when I got back though' are racist and if anyone doesn't realise that then they are probably racist as well

The OP fancies having a husband from South America - people from SA are not a race, so nothing racist in that.

Someone else would like to have Nigerian lovers - nothing racist about that either! Wanting to keep it to yourself that you've gone off for some foreign sex is not racist behaviour.

As mentioned upthread, back in the day Scandinavian men were the ideal shag.

JHound · 26/10/2025 15:28

chachahide · 26/10/2025 08:27

When I was in Gambia I noticed quite a few older white British ladies with much younger Gambian men, when we were out at dinner and so on. Chatting to people in the resort apparently it’s a well known place for that! So I can recommend Gambia.

Are people really encouraging sexual exploitation on this thread?

JHound · 26/10/2025 15:35

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 12:21

Can't quite believe the racism in this thread. And it's mostly from the sort of people who go on about racism all the time

It’s a complete shit show isn’t it. Racial fetishisation, national stereotyping, racial stereotyping and discussing the genitalia of whole groups of men. But it’s just “bants” apparently.

Ew.

🤢

Lostthebubblewand · 26/10/2025 16:18

@JHoundhardly… I can’t speak for the others on here but it’s not so much fetishising a race as appreciating the values of another culture and thinking it would be easier to find romance in a country with those values. So less emphasis on finding your ‘perfect match’ ‘soulmate’ etc and more on finding someone who you quite fancy, can have a laugh with and who likes my cooking.
In the same way that white men started marrying women from Thailand or Russia due to wanting to be put on a pedestal, British women are choosing to date foreign men to escape the shit that British men put them through, such as not committing, expecting women to be both breadwinner and domestic goddess, not really wanting to compromise hobbies for family life, all that shit. As we head towards further equality, women like me who have had children, are home owners, professionals, good self esteem will choose men who are less effort. I don’t need a provider nor do I need sperm. I just want a good time and to be treated like a lady.

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JHound · 26/10/2025 16:54

In the same way that white men started marrying women from Thailand or Russia due to wanting to be put on a pedestal, British women are choosing to date foreign men to escape the shit that British men put them through,

Both of this is problematic.

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 17:11

Westfacing · 26/10/2025 15:28

The OP fancies having a husband from South America - people from SA are not a race, so nothing racist in that.

Someone else would like to have Nigerian lovers - nothing racist about that either! Wanting to keep it to yourself that you've gone off for some foreign sex is not racist behaviour.

As mentioned upthread, back in the day Scandinavian men were the ideal shag.

Hispanic is an ethnicity and saying you want to fly to a random country of black people for two weeks to have as much as shameful sex as possible is the textbook definition of racism. It's profiling men based on their race - it's not seeing them as individual people but instead a colour

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 17:15

Lostthebubblewand · 26/10/2025 16:18

@JHoundhardly… I can’t speak for the others on here but it’s not so much fetishising a race as appreciating the values of another culture and thinking it would be easier to find romance in a country with those values. So less emphasis on finding your ‘perfect match’ ‘soulmate’ etc and more on finding someone who you quite fancy, can have a laugh with and who likes my cooking.
In the same way that white men started marrying women from Thailand or Russia due to wanting to be put on a pedestal, British women are choosing to date foreign men to escape the shit that British men put them through, such as not committing, expecting women to be both breadwinner and domestic goddess, not really wanting to compromise hobbies for family life, all that shit. As we head towards further equality, women like me who have had children, are home owners, professionals, good self esteem will choose men who are less effort. I don’t need a provider nor do I need sperm. I just want a good time and to be treated like a lady.

It's not fetishising a race says the person who literally said in the OP that she's fetishising Latino men.

Yes it's just like British men getting a Thai bride - and those men are both disgusting and racist

PeloMom · 26/10/2025 17:19

Hoppinggreen · 26/10/2025 08:27

I have 2 friends with LA husbands (Brazil and Argentina), believe me you do not want one

I second this. I have many LA friends (women) and none of them would marry a LA man ( cheating and not treating women well as top reasons)

Lostthebubblewand · 26/10/2025 17:20

@Cinnamon77what would be the difference if I was a Latina who wanted a British man, or a Latina who wanted to marry an Asian man?

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Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 17:24

Lostthebubblewand · 26/10/2025 17:20

@Cinnamon77what would be the difference if I was a Latina who wanted a British man, or a Latina who wanted to marry an Asian man?

If by British man you mean a white man (which is probably also racist) then it would be equally racist.

Asia is a massive continent of many different races and ethnicities. I don't know what you mean there - it's not comparable with Hispanic men

olivehater · 26/10/2025 17:29

bostonchamps · 26/10/2025 08:03

You can borrow the one currently taking up 85% of my bed if you want, to test drive?

Don’t meant to derails the thread but I can’t decide between a miniature and a standard poodle.

Can you sway me either way bostonchamps?

Swiftasthewind · 26/10/2025 17:29

JHound · 26/10/2025 15:28

Are people really encouraging sexual exploitation on this thread?

How is that sexual exploitation? The men in these countries love it as much as the women who go there do, this is not the same as a white man going to Thailand to try and pick up a young bride, which I would absolutely say is sexual exploitation.

The two just simply aren’t the same, it sounds like you are jealous quite frankly.

Lostthebubblewand · 26/10/2025 17:35

@Cinnamon77i think you’re the one who’s being ignorant now, Latin America is a huge continent too. I didn’t specify whether my preference was indigenous, Mestizo, Latin Americans of African descent, Argentinans of Italian or German descent, Japanese Peruvians… the list goes on. I don’t mind, my post was not about looks but about culture and values, and style! Ethnicity is irrelevant.
And no I don’t mean white British, I mean British, culturally British, as in would it be wrong for a Latina to dream about a polite, slightly eccentric, posh British man (of any colour!) as I think many non British women do! Look at the appeal of meeting Hugh Grant for American women? Why is my post any different to that?

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lalafox · 26/10/2025 17:41

PeloMom · 26/10/2025 17:19

I second this. I have many LA friends (women) and none of them would marry a LA man ( cheating and not treating women well as top reasons)

You can’t say that all South American men cheat and treat women badly. DH is South American and treats me better than any man has and never cheated. He cooks, he cleans (more than me) he loves doing family things.

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 17:47

Swiftasthewind · 26/10/2025 17:29

How is that sexual exploitation? The men in these countries love it as much as the women who go there do, this is not the same as a white man going to Thailand to try and pick up a young bride, which I would absolutely say is sexual exploitation.

The two just simply aren’t the same, it sounds like you are jealous quite frankly.

It's exactly the same as Thai brides. It's older, richer people who hold all the power targeting younger people who have a lot less. The British men justify this in exactly the same way - saying the women love it, are really into it, know exactly what they're doing and are getting a better life out of it

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 17:53

Lostthebubblewand · 26/10/2025 17:35

@Cinnamon77i think you’re the one who’s being ignorant now, Latin America is a huge continent too. I didn’t specify whether my preference was indigenous, Mestizo, Latin Americans of African descent, Argentinans of Italian or German descent, Japanese Peruvians… the list goes on. I don’t mind, my post was not about looks but about culture and values, and style! Ethnicity is irrelevant.
And no I don’t mean white British, I mean British, culturally British, as in would it be wrong for a Latina to dream about a polite, slightly eccentric, posh British man (of any colour!) as I think many non British women do! Look at the appeal of meeting Hugh Grant for American women? Why is my post any different to that?

Do you think Latin America (80 times the size of the UK and ten times the population) is one culture? I'm not even sure Britain is one culture that can be generalised in that way

Swiftasthewind · 26/10/2025 18:23

Cinnamon77 · 26/10/2025 17:47

It's exactly the same as Thai brides. It's older, richer people who hold all the power targeting younger people who have a lot less. The British men justify this in exactly the same way - saying the women love it, are really into it, know exactly what they're doing and are getting a better life out of it

No it’s not the same at all. The power dynamics are entirely different. In fact, one major reason a lot of women cite for travelling to these countries for a man is that they are looking for someone who is masculine and traditional because they consider the men back home to be lacking in that department.

My last partner was a coward who spent his weekends painting and playing with little toy soldiers and wouldn’t say boo to a goose. I can see where they are coming from to be perfectly honest.