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Dodgy porn/sex life or am I judgemental?

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Hattifnatt88 · 01/07/2019 09:44

Let me start off saying, this is about an ex - it just still bothers me for whatever reason.

My ex and I had lots of sex in the beginning, but eventually it became very rare, once we went 5 months without for no reason other than him not fancying it. I have a high sex drive, and this was very difficult for me (appreciate nobody should have sex if they don't want to).

My ex was abusive, which is why I eventually left him after being with him my entire 20s. He didn't like me initiating sex, so he would just decline. Whenever he wanted sex if I did not, he would sulk and be in a mood with me, then not want sex for several weeks after. So I just stopped saying no, as it wasn't worth the bad atmosphere - often I did not want to at all, just did it anyway.

I didn't realise until last week when I told my new (amazing) boyfriend that I didn't want sex, and he reacted so well, and didn't get moody about it at all (he said it's okay, don't want to do anything I'm not comfortable with. I did not say no, I just said "don't know" and he understood.) I cried, realising how wrong it had been in my previous relationship.

I left my ex once before, but we got back together and he moved in with me in the new flat I had moved to. I found out later that whilst we had been doing relationship counselling to try to save our relationship, that he had signed up to sex meet up websites and browsed for local escorts. This was when we were not living together, but from my understanding trying to work on our relationship. I checked his browsing history, and he had not been looking afaik at this whilst we lived together.

Later I also found he was watching a lot of porn - not having sex with me often still. One of the things I found on pornhub was labelled as "young teen masturbating", and it was a girl on her bed, in a girly pyjamas and with lots of soft toys around her and stuff, set as if she was 13 perhaps. She was very clearly over 18, so it wasn't that it was actual illegal porn, but it really disturbed me. When I eventually confronted him about it, he said he couldn't remember and wasn't paying too much attention to what porn he watched on there.

Like I said, this wasn't actual illegal porn, more some form of age play I guess. But it disturbed me to the core (I was molested at 14 by a man in his 50s). We did split up 1,5 years later again for good. I worry I'm being judgemental at a harmless fetish or something, or if my feelings are valid and natural. Is this a normal thing? Am I being judgemental of a kink? I know "teen porn" is very common, I don't like it, but this was depicted as a very young teen, and there is a big difference between someone pretending to be around 13 and someone that is 18 or 19.

Sorry for the long waffle, I just needed to get this off my chest and not sure where else I can.

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category12 · 05/07/2019 18:42

Rewrite: What does it say about the viewer/ person playing the parent/carer role, tho?

PetrolBastard · 05/07/2019 20:10

I couldn't tell you. But I know it's fiercely defended as not being a primarily sexual thing.

Jellylegsni · 05/07/2019 20:15

That scenario you described is paedophilic and I would be disgusted by it. If that makes me a "kink shamer" I can live with that.

Jellylegsni · 05/07/2019 20:17

Also, I think it's ok to be judgemental about certain things. Paedophilia being one of them. Being judgemental is not automatically bad, although it has bad connotations.

PetrolBastard · 05/07/2019 22:50

I think the issue here is that there are women out there who have been sexually assaulted, who say that this kind of thing makes them feel more comfortable. I'm not going to question that because I haven't been through that and I don't feel it's my place. It's that specifically that I don't want to kink shame for.

However, that's not what the OP is referring to.

Palalamas · 05/07/2019 22:57

Never date someone with a dodgy porn interests. The real (old fashioned) word is 'deviant' or just plain creeps.

Usually they turn out to be creepy and dodgy in other ways.

Best avoided or dropped pronto.

category12 · 05/07/2019 23:28

If it's not primarily sexual, why's it porn? Hmm

PetrolBastard · 06/07/2019 00:03

I'm just telling you what I've heard.

user1481840227 · 06/07/2019 00:45

I don't know if the porn he watched or how it was labelled or presented is really the issue.
I watch porn, go onto most porn sites and a lot of the videos have weird labels, I tend to look at a thumbnail and click on what I like rather than search for anything but will often see clips labelled as young teen or stepsister etc. when they are not teens at all, and I imagine many people watching the stepsister or brother ones aren't looking for incest or into the idea of having sex with a stepsibling!

Hattifnatt88 · 13/07/2019 12:01

Hmm, thanks for the replies - mumsnet thread watch hadn't notified me for some reason! I think it's the fact it was "young" teen category was disturbing me, and also the setting with pink, childish, teddybears everywhere. It was so childlike. The girl was not at all under aged, but the pretend bit was very disturbing to me. I'm very glad he is no longer my partner!

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happybunny007 · 13/07/2019 13:07

If he were really into this surely there’d be loads of this kind of stuff being watched. Many of us have clicked on the odd thing that isn’t really representative of our actual tastes.

Hattifnatt88 · 13/07/2019 19:55

I didn't snoop any further than that out of fear what I might see!

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