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Found a file saved on Partner's PC

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TwoPeasOnePod · 12/01/2012 11:15

OK. This happened on 31st dec, been thinking about posting since then to get opinions, seeing as I can't seem to break out of the numb feeling to form one of my own. I am 25, have 2 DD's under 5 with my partner,been together about 7 years now. I am 29 weeks pregnant with our third child. We live together.

Looking through the files hes recently downloaded, whilst he was walking around in the background feeding kids etc,so I wasnt being sneaky, I noticed some general porn saved (an orgy one and a nurse-themed one) He knows it pisses me off, so I deleted them and had a bit of a whinge (not a HUGE deal to me, as our sex life is pretty non-existent due to my anaemia/seem to bleed easily after sex/hip pain)
so a 'normal' wank to a bit of vanilla porn is the best of a shitty deal to me, I feel I cant stop him using it.
Carried on randomly looking, and saw two quite different films saved that hes downloaded- one was titled something like hot german Teenager fisting, and the other was called Real Drugged Rape.
I clicked on it to see what the actual fuck it was, and as the title suggests, it appeared to me to be a young (18 to 20 at a guess) Asian woman in the back of a car, VERY drowsy/almost unconscious, being fondled/exposed/touched by some older man, filming on what appeared to be shaky handheld camera.

I skipped through it, saw a few seconds of the woman face down being raped etcetera. All of which is BURNED into my fucking memory. It pops into my head constantly, it is making me ill with stress.I felt like i was genuinley going to faint, due to shock i think, and utter, utter disgust. And I asked my partner to come and explain it. He said he "downloaded it out of curiosity" and when asked if he finds it in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER a turn-on, he vehemently denied that it is, likening it to watching executions etc that are real and available online (I didn't know he would watch that either!!) I didnt really look at the fisting one, but its the same category, relatively young woman being used and violated.

I said to him that even if the rape one isn't a film of a 'real' rape, the fantasy of raping a very young woman WHO IS FUCKING DRUGGED (or acting?! how the fuck can you know for sure) is completely wrong to me, as a mother if two DDs I cannot tolerate a person who would even look at it just out of curiosity, much less select it, download it, and then keep it. He apologised and said he is stupid, didnt 'think'.

Despite the fact he says he gets nothing sexual out of it, I am obviously not believing that. Why the fuck else would he download it? (thats a genuine question, I cant think of any other reason why, and the resulting congnitive dissonance is making me ill. I dont want to believe it is true, because it will make the imminent birth of my child etc very hard if Im alone.)

So, from a feminist point of view (am trying to use that as an approach to my life, have very low self esteem too) I am thinking I should remove him from mine and my DDs presence, I feel THAT strongly about it. He is otherwise a lovely-seeming person, a bit cold and robotic sometimes but funny, warm, and has what I would previously have described as vanilla tastes re porn, sex etc. He says fisting is normal? I didnt think so, but dont really know in terms of general acceptability.
He certainly hasnt tried to hide it as such,knowing I have free access to his PC, just dont use it. He didnt expect me to fidn it though.Also found that in the fortnight before Xmas he has joined a dating site and a 'sex in the UK' site. When I confronted him, he says it was curiosity again Hmm and he would never actually cheat, just clicked links and had a nosy.........

I feel like a total twat, due to give birth soon, and obviously at some point he is probably going to fuck me over. Current emotional situation is totally numb. I havent done anything or said anything conclusive to him about the whole thing because in the past I slept with someone else once, and so am battling with remaining objective. Because till now he hasnt put a foot wrong that I know of. I cannot believe how vulnerable he has made me feel.

Sorry for length of post but trying not to drip feed.

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tooearlymustdache · 12/01/2012 11:18

call the police - report the file

then see how your 'D'P reacts and tries to squirm out of it

TwoPeasOnePod · 12/01/2012 11:22

Yes I said t him it would surely be illegal. And I certainly didnt say he was my 'D' P! I have deleted the file and emptied the bin on the PC though?would that make a difference?

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tooearlymustdache · 12/01/2012 11:24

you're making excuses already, call the police

it'll still be on your PC somewhere

salmonskinroll · 12/01/2012 11:25

Why the fuck else would he download it? (thats a genuine question)

Simple answer: because it turned him on, and to wank to it.

The 'curious' crock of shit excuse he have you is bullshit.

salmonskinroll · 12/01/2012 11:25

gave* you

Starwisher · 12/01/2012 11:25

I am so sorry you are going through this, especially when pregnant.

I'm a sat here open mouthed in shock. I'm sorry but there is just too many things that a deal breaker.

Violent porn.joining a dating website.

Whilst pregnant.

Thats just beyond appalling.

I can't see a way to come back from this.

theenchantedhood · 12/01/2012 11:27

Horrible OP Sad

I feel for you. It's hard to feel like 'you're not making a big deal out of it' but it is.. I don't have any advice and have no idea what I would do in this situation I'm afraid..

TwoPeasOnePod · 12/01/2012 11:28

I know Sad I see threads on here that make me very shocked, and thought it wouldnt happen to me, and now it has in a really vile way. I have to say that iI honestly dont know if I am strong enough to do what I clearly need to. Judge as you will but I am very numb and just dont know what to do.

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catherinea1971 · 12/01/2012 11:29

The police will be able to find it.

So sorry you are going through this. It would be a deal breaker for me.

It will be in your history unless that has been deleted too?

I would have to get the police involved they can work on tracing where it is coming from, they work with other police over the world wrt this type of porn.

He was curious eh, how far will his curiosity take him I wonder, where would he draw the line?

Starwisher · 12/01/2012 11:30

You need to ask him to leave. Even if just temporary to get your head around thus for your own sanity.

Ask someone who you love and trust to stay while you deal with this and help with the children.

You poor thing, you must have been shaking when you saw it.

My biggest advice is do not keep emotions wrapped up. Cry, cry and cry again. You have too for own mental health.

tooearlymustdache · 12/01/2012 11:31

i'm not judging you at all, i can read how shocked you are, it must have been awful but you know why it's so awful, that's what's shocked you, no?

Rikalaily · 12/01/2012 11:31

This would be a deal breaker for me, I could very very slightly understand downloading out of curiosity to see if it were a staged etc film, but keeping it after knowing it was obviously real is inexcusable, also fisting isn't normal, it's a fetish. The signing to dating sites also a deal breaker, you don't sign up to a dating site/sex site out of curiosity, whats there to be curious about? You sign up to find people to date and I would assume that the Sex in the UK site would be used to find people for no strings sex? Again, no need to sign up unless you intended to use it.

So sorry that you are going through this :(

I agree with tooearlymustdache I would call the police about the rape video. When you delete something, it's still there, it just gets made available to be written over if the space is needed, it can be found and extracted with the right software.

rubycon · 12/01/2012 11:31

it will leave a footprint on the hard drive - it can be found. If you do give it to the police they may be able to find the girl and the people who did this to her and prosecute them.

I'm also very sorry that you ar going through this.

yummybunny · 12/01/2012 11:33

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catherinea1971 · 12/01/2012 11:33

I for one won't judge you, it is easy to tell someone on her they must do xyz, more difficult to do in real life.
The more I read these boards the more I feel saddened by the effect porn has on peoples lives.

Be kind to yourself, what do you feel like you need to do next?

Starwisher · 12/01/2012 11:33

Is phoning the police wise right now?
I fear the shock of seeing her husband arrested on top of all this will be too much.

TwoPeasOnePod · 12/01/2012 11:34

My mum was here at the time when I found it so my urge was to keep it 'quiet' if that makes any sense? But I am wanting to sort it and I feel like I could never have sex with him again. My mum and I dont discuss things like this (have never fucking needed to cos its not been an issue) so keeping a lid on my horror at finding it, having words with him upstairs away from her/kids and then just havent revisited the topic with him, because I just dont know how to approach it. Everything is horribly creepily normal, as he carries on just as before and I am numb as a fucking rock.

I feel like I have no one to 'tell' in RL because he is liked and respected,so people would just be like "dont be daft the babys coming soon, its not as if he physically cheated" WHICH I HAVE DONE to him. plus as horrible as it is, I want to be selfish and have him help with the birth of his 3rd child and not have to struggle my arse off because of something hes done, while he swans off and only has to deal with work/ kipping at his friends etc. But the whole thing is so sickening that I do not want him here.

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StealthPolarBear · 12/01/2012 11:35

Yes, I read this thinking call police. And get him out of you & your dd's lives.
Poor woman. I hope she was 'acting' rather than being raped, though I'm sure in both scenarios she's being exploited

GypsyMoth · 12/01/2012 11:35

I am thinking the same as starwisher

Some things just can't be accepted. And his curiosity clicking on dating site adverts is very different to signing up to them!!

I think you need to call the police/ceops people, and move in leaving him behind

But get some proof. You do not ever want to be in the situation where you have to hand over your girls for unsupervised contact with this man. Just in case more stuff like this comes to light. Hang on to some proof.

StealthPolarBear · 12/01/2012 11:36

I'd want him well away from my children Tbh.
Can you get family help for the birth? Either way that's not reason enough.

MrsChemist · 12/01/2012 11:36

I'm so sorry this has happened to you Sad

The police will be able to recover it easily. There are ways to get rid of things permanently, but just deleting isn't one of them.

nursenic · 12/01/2012 11:38

Please please please pass that info on to the police.

He will cheat on you. He has no respect for you. He's not even trying to hide his perversions (and they are perversions) from you and therefore, eventually your children as they will one day find his porn.

Try to amass help in the real world-family, friends, your GP, tell your midwife and ask her for help. Insist that she finds out how to access more support for you. Contact the CAB, Homestart, even social services can and will help. They are not about 'taking children away'.

I beg you though to get him away from you.

And bleeding after or during sex needs to be investigated. For your sake, not his.

theenchantedhood · 12/01/2012 11:38

I wouldn't call thepolice either but I would kick him out. Just because you haven't had sex fora while you have a family an new baby on the way. He has actively D/L the files andkept them.

I wish I could give you a massive squeeze right now.

I think you have the strength. You have thought long and hard but this is the deal breaker :(

TwoPeasOnePod · 12/01/2012 11:42

Btw i am hoping that this thread will make me break, as it were, I have yet to cry or think it through, which is odd because I am very much a 'get angry when affronted' person. I told him that I put the rape video on a level with child porn, it definitely isnt child porn and I have no worries in that regard about him, but the seriousness of what it depicts and it looked so fucking real- here I am talking as if its just a depiction, it did look very real to me. I want to belive him that he wouldnt wank over it but as a previous poster said, of course he would have, there are no other reasons to purposefully download such a horrible and non-mainstream thing Sad Angry

Also anyone who knows about porn- he told me he did a general search using the word 'porn' and the rape thing is one of the first that came up- that sounds implausible to me but could that happen? Or should I just stop being blind and accept that he must have typed specific search words? that just about makes me want to die if he did.

I have the younger DD home with me so cant post in response as often as I need to, and will unfortunately not be posting at all when hes back from work unless I can take the laptop upstairs, so please be patient and I'm not posting and then disappearing, just getting my head around it and replying when I can

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SarahStratton · 12/01/2012 11:42

yummybunny etc. That could be me on that file. Me, someone you 'know'. It will be a woman that someone does know.

Still think it's not right to call the Police?