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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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Bossybritches22 · 24/01/2012 13:55

twopeas ultimately it's your call, you have to do what works with/for you.

However I think we're only confirming what you really feel and know you have to do aren't we ?

Apart from the odd saddo which we'll all ignore I think, not worth the post-space, you've had a variety of good suggestions and support so mull it all over and Make A Plan.

Half the anxiety I think is not knowing, personally I can deal with all sorts of shite (& have done) if I know what I'm dealing with and what my options are IYSKIM?

Haved you thought about where you'd live, is the home rented/owned, finances that sort of thing?

spenditwisely · 24/01/2012 14:10

Garlic it wouldn't be the first time a man got the age of their wife wrong, or indeed a woman lied about her age - it's still possible that was H.

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singingprincess · 24/01/2012 14:43

Oh bloody hell. I think something need to happen to this thread.

singingprincess · 24/01/2012 14:44

I have to do the school run, but if someone could get in touch with MNHQ and do what needs to be done...I think that would be good.

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 14:44

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AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 14:46

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HormoneGranger · 24/01/2012 14:46

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HormoneGranger · 24/01/2012 14:49

AnyFucker - Really? No one can disagree, it's so cut and dried to you?
Looking at porn = evil? Take a step back and look at it rationally.

I look at what other people would do. Sure he was the son of a carpenter and could knock up a decent table and chairs but say what you want about Jesus but he does provide a good moral compass for the masses

garlicfrother · 24/01/2012 14:53

some porn is not what OP found; it was a very specific type of violence.
would it be better if he sought sexual relief elsewhere - He apparently thinks so, as he's been trying.

You haven't read the thread and you're being a twit.

SimoneD · 24/01/2012 14:54

I think Hormone hasn't taken his/her medication today!

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 15:00

HG why did you namechange or simply join this site just to "give a bit of balance" to this thread

are you a user of r a p e p o r n ?

HormoneGranger · 24/01/2012 15:01

I have read the thread. His signing up to a dating site is exercising some fantasy if you ask me. At least he's not cheated on her, then what would you all have to say about that?

The guy is getting no sex, come on, he's looking for a little validation and he's seeking it online, not in the arms of another.

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 15:03

OP, sorry these arseholes are derailing your thread. Please try to ignore them.

Silly boys who are still enraged because we are discussing Menz in an unflattering light.

Molasses · 24/01/2012 15:03

You're looking for validation more like. You won't get it.

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 15:05

Even though i didn't just take my own advice, it really is better to simply ignore

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muffyvampirelayer · 24/01/2012 15:05

It was a little unfair that y'all were telling OP to get rid of "D"H before having heard all that though.

And fyi, having worked in the porn industry, NONE of those rape vids are real.

HormoneGranger · 24/01/2012 15:07

Soft Parade ... not at all, I await the next batch of advice for a cheating husband and hope you recall the circumstances of this thread and can suitably roll out the cliches 'once a cheater ...' etc that female-kind like to spin out.

spenditwisely · 24/01/2012 15:07

We're not discussing 'Menz' we are discussing one man. OP's other half, who is behaving like an out of control teenager while his wife is 29 weeks pregnant.

And we're discussing whether or not real rape porn is illegal, and if so, is a downloaded version thereof going to provide OP's partner with a spell on the sex offender register.

spenditwisely · 24/01/2012 15:10

maybe she's exagerrating for her own benefit - she was made to feel physically sick and can't get the images out of her head. She is in shock. She's pregnant. Now back off and leave her alone you sadist.

muffyvampirelayer · 24/01/2012 15:11

Yeah, he's clearly a doosh for the dating site bull, but leave the guy's porn tastes to himself. I'd be more worried that he doesn't know how to delete his history! OP even mentioned herself that she can't give him any herself... what does she expect him to do? Explode in his pants every night?

I'd much rather my man got his at home on the computer than cheating. Maybe by making it so clear that porn isn't allowed, he feels compelled to find other ways to let off his steam. I don't know, just speculating.

HormoneGranger · 24/01/2012 15:12

Of course 'real' rape porn is illegal, you need to discuss that?

What we have decided is if the OP can determine what 'real' rape porn is or is she had no idea about the world of porn and she's just shocked cause she's seen this fantasy type stuff for the first time.

He seems to be acting with remarkable restraint for a man that isn't getting much sexual attention, at least he's keeping it all at home where it's all in his head. Isn't that partly what porn is useful for?

I don't think the wife being pregnant makes much difference when it comes to looking at porn. Better to be watching porn than hitting bars picking up women, surely?

spenditwisely · 24/01/2012 15:14

I didn't know there were only three options Muffy - sex with partner / sex with rape porn / sex with someone else behind their back.

HormoneGranger · 24/01/2012 15:14

spenditwisely, I have no idea what it takes to make the OP physically sick. If I found my partner cheating on my I'd be physically sick, doesn't make it the worst thing in the world. I don't know her porn threshold.

Maybe she's just shocked to see any kind of porn at all mixed with the rush of checking up on him and the hormones from the pregnancy