Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Found a file saved on Partner's PC

493 replies

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.

OP posts:
Malificence · 24/01/2012 20:39

Anyone who responds with such ignorance really hasn't spent much time reading the relationships boards, people who spout the "all men are bastards/use porn/beat their wives/whatever are given very short shrift on here.

It's those of us who have good and decent men in our lives who are most vociferous in condemning men like OP's husband because we know what good men are and he is not one of the good ones. No man who enjoys watching images of rape, real or faked, is.
If believing that a third of men would rape a woman isn't "man hating" I have no idea what is.

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 20:41

You have no idea what it is?

It's peer-reviewed science!

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 20:41

fair play, up to 21 yo then

it doesn't change my interpretation of it though

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 20:44

Up to 21

So old enough to have sex, old enough to drink, old enough to have a job, old enough to drive a car, old enough to buy a house, old enough to get married...

but not old enough to be a 'man' in Anyfucker's eyes?

HopeEternal · 24/01/2012 20:46

Nor should it change your interpretation, AF.

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 20:47

kristine...I don't understand why you keep pushing at this

is it helpful for the OP ?

I don't need to read that single piece of research to know that a proportion of boys, young men and older men have fucked-up ideas about women

what more do you want us to say ?

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 20:49

fwiw, my daughter is old enough to smoke, get married, have sex, drink in a pub blah blah

I don't consider her to be a "woman"

you seem to be pushing a very peripheral point here, and I don't understand why

FromTheFarSide · 24/01/2012 20:51

'decent family men of which a proven 35% would commit a rape if they could get away with it. Imagine how that would increase if it was legal.'

Imagine if it was compulsory - 100%.

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 20:52

My point is the Op's 'D'H is a criminal

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 20:54

kristine, it was established very early in this thread that he probably is not a criminal (more's the pity..)

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 20:56

Hmm, well if that's the case then I'm very disappointed in the legal system

The fact is though; he's a man. He'll be guilty of something

singingprincess · 24/01/2012 21:02

But I agree about the legal stuff. That's why keeping the hard drive is a very wise move indeed. And No, it isn't the whole tower, it's one of the units in the tower, you know, like the dvd drive. Anyone with basic knowledge will be able to remove it for you, although you could almost certainly work it our for yourself. But to be sure, just ask someone who knows about this stuff. They don't have to know why, just say, in case we forget to transfer files, photos or addresses or something.

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 21:12

That's a good idea. You could even buy a new HD and copy all the files over so he'd never know

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 21:31

The fact is though; he's a man. He'll be guilty of something KristineRackabusi

Oh, you are a silly thing! A very silly thing.

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 21:34

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by Mumsnet.

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 21:40

I don't know that my DH doesn't watch "Real Drugged Rape" but I hope, and trust, he doesn't.

However, this isn't about me, my partner or you K, so I shall leave this now.

OP Hope you are ok.

Sparks1 · 24/01/2012 21:40

"All men participate in the degradation of women - how is that not a crime?"

WTF?!

Dear me. Idiot. No doubt i've just degraded you with that comment... ^^

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 21:42

ESP - Do you know? Have you checked? The OP didn't know until she checked. I'm sure that she was like you before her suspicions were aroused.

Sparks1 - Well thought out, rational argument there.

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 21:44

All men participate in the degradation of women - how is that not a crime?

You are back to being a very silly thing.

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 21:47

Heads. In. The. Sand.

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 21:47

kristine...if you are trying to be a Radical Feminist here, you are having an epic failure

and really not helping

Sparks1 · 24/01/2012 21:48

"Sparks1 - Well thought out, rational argument there"

A perfectly rational comment considering there is nothing to argue with. You're claim is based on no evidence whatsoever and is highly insulting to not just men but females to.

I shan't continue. Enough rope and all that...

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 21:51

Please read my post above. I hope, and trust, not. I know DH has watched porn and, while I have reservations, that is his business.

However, I have read, watched and heard testimonies from women and men involved in porn. I am not keen. Bite me.

KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 21:52

I'm not trying to be anything - especially not a 'Radical Feminist'

Do you really think that this couldn't happen to any of you? That your men are that much different to the OPs?

Well she probably did too, and now look

HopeEternal · 24/01/2012 21:53

Kristine, I have no idea what your agenda here is but it clearly doesn't include reading other people's posts properly before replying to them.

ESP very clearly said "I don't know that my DH doesn't watch "Real Drugged Rape" but I hope, and trust, he doesn't." Your reply was inappropriate.

I agree with AF that you are not helping.

TwoPeas please ignore the smoke and mirrors. There are a great many of us who want to support you.