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:
KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 21:53

Exactly ESP - in watching it he has contributed to these horror stories you see from the 'performers'

If people didn't watch it, there wouldn't be a market for it.

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 21:55

kristine, most of us on this thread are condemning what he did in very strong terms, including his poor wife

who are you arguing with here, precisely ? Confused

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 21:56

< adds more info to case for "hide poster function >

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 21:58
KristineRackabusi · 24/01/2012 22:04

I'm not trying to argue with anyone. I posted a few things which, in my experience, are true and everyone jumped on my back.

It's almost like people don't appreciate the light of truth penetrating their veiled eyes Shock

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 22:12

it's kinda argumentative to tell people they are literally stupid, ignorant and in pigheaded denial

so forgive us if we a bit irritated with you

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 22:14

get

Sparks1 · 24/01/2012 22:16

"I posted a few things which, in my experience, are true "

Yes, and it's exactly that. Your experience. It doesn't mean your experience translates to the population as a whole.

What i would say is i feel very sorry that that's your experience.

Pollykitten · 24/01/2012 22:19

Could I also suggest maybe not to report it to the police just yet? It sounds as though you have enough things to deal with and pieces of this story to unravel as it is. I'm not condoning his behaviour in ANY way, but I guess I think with two children and a baby on the way, it might be a stress too far just at the moment - perhaps deal with the relationship issues first? MNers always say 'leave the bastard' but whatever you decide, you have some talking to do. It does sound as though you aren't close and it also sounds like he hasn't responded by reassuring you he loves you or wants to sort it out. You have a huge amount of sympathy from everyone on here. Do get support, but choose wisely, you don't necessarily want the whole world to know your business.

Pollykitten · 24/01/2012 22:20

By the whole world, I mean the real world, not on here - share away xx

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 22:27

AnyFucker Smile

ThisIsMummyPig · 24/01/2012 22:28

I have skipped from page 6 to page 15. So after telling Kristine where to go, and apologising if I missed anything, I would like to tell you how sorry I am and how couragous you are being.

I think that you have very carefully balanced the needs of your family against your personal feelings, and your eldest two daughters are going to need support in the weeks after you give birth.

Could you suggest to him that you take the hard-drive and hide it/lock it up, and you have a new one for the computer. Then you will literally have a clean sheet to start with.

You can then more easily monitor what he is up to, and you can have some peace of mind.

You can set yourself a deadline - maybe your baby getting to six months - to review the situation, and report him or leave him, if you still feel that it is appropriate.

I posted on here a couple of weeks ago about a family matter, and was really shocked at the vitriol. It's really easy to make decisions about somebody else's life knowing the fallout won't affect you. The people saying leave him now aren't the ones facing being single parents with three very young children. They do however have your best interests at heart.

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 22:30

ESP a key word to add on, whatwhat Wink

ElectricSoftParade · 24/01/2012 22:52

AnyFucker Smile

OP, best of all wishes to you. Sorry and all that but ((hugs)) and stay well.

And James and/or Dan and/or randoms, off you fuck you utter wankstains. Toodles xx

AnyFucker · 24/01/2012 23:17

night, ESP

GirlWithPointyShoes · 24/01/2012 23:44

Kristine, Shut up.

Hope you are doing ok OP. I doubt it though.

ThatVikRinA22 · 25/01/2012 01:15

Forgive me nipping in and I've not read from where I left off, but am just back to say I have double checked while at work just now, and the images held on the download are not illegal.... Just thought I'd let u know for sure op, hope your ok. Sorry if this is out of context.... Not got time to read it all.

ArtyV · 25/01/2012 04:49

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by Mumsnet.

ThatVikRinA22 · 25/01/2012 05:39

I'm a police officer, I use just checked the exact offences relating to illegal images, trust me when I tell you that this download is not illegal. It should be, but it's not. What do you want the op to do? Just because you all think it should be doesn't make it so. The op has bigger fish to fry . But for once and for all- iit is not illegal to have rape pornography. I really have just checked, Christ knows what my colleagues must think....

ThatVikRinA22 · 25/01/2012 05:41
  • have ( not use) iPhone autocorrect .....
Malificence · 25/01/2012 08:03

Do you think it's the same band of idiots who name change to come here to "set us straight" every few weeks?

What a monumental waste of time and energy to try and get people to take the bait, or even sadder, maybe they actually believe the crap they spout.

Bossybritches22 · 25/01/2012 08:11

Good Morning twopeas How are you today?

Please don't let the hijacking of this thread into a heated debate about porn upset you or cloud your thinking. Thanks to vicars research at least you know where you stand re the police & the computer, so one less thing to ponder on.

I totally agree with mummypig I think that what you WANT to do in terms of ending your relationship and getting STBE out is being clouded/debated by the practical issues of your physical problems re the pregnancy and your short term need for support until the baby is born.

Whilst I agree that doing nothing may help him persuade you that everything is OK, I don't think you are that soft!

You have to decide what will work FOR YOU in the short term, and what YOU can tolerate in the short term that makes life easier with the DD's and the new baby.

You are the one with the bigger picture, lots of different POV here which is healthy but it's so easy for us to shout "leave the bastard" it's so much harder in RL especially with the hormones raging!Smile

Bossybritches22 · 25/01/2012 08:14

Malificence it does make you wonder!

spenditwisely · 25/01/2012 08:50

Vicar you may be a police officer but you have no idea what you are talking about because you don't know whether the image is a real rape image. As I mentioned above, there are laws both on publishing images and laws on possessing images.

It depends on various things

whether the image is real (only the relevant crime specialist would know)
whether the 'rape' is consensual
where the rape took place
which country the image is held
which country the server is.

So please don't cut in with appropriate advice when you have no idea of the origin or content of the video. OP knows far more than you about any of this so some reference to her posts would be advisable.

You guys out there thinking there is 'no big deal' in having a couple of abusive images on your pc are living in cloud cuckoo land. Are you really still a police officer Vicar? Take a look at this.

www.iwf.org.uk/hotline/the-laws/criminally-obscene-adult-content

Sorry OP for sidetracking here, but it's perspective you want, not virtual gaslighting.

muffyvampirelayer · 25/01/2012 08:51

I've read some horrible testimonials from people in the music business. How they were exploited and demeaned in order to make money.

I now no longer listen to music.

Swipe left for the next trending thread