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New boyfriend and strange sex life

54 replies

BloomingMagnolias · 06/10/2025 13:39

Not sure whether to put this here or in the Sex section, but here goes.

Just met a man in June. I'm 29, he's 38. We've gone on loads of lovely dates, drinks, meals, walks, I've met his family and they really like me. They seem nice.

We started sleeping together end of August. I say sleeping together, but it's never actually happened. I first put it down to nerves or something, then I thought because he had a lodger it was that. The lodger moved out and nothing changed. Basically he can't get an erection. At all.

We have talked about it. He brought it up a couple of weeks ago. Said what he thought it could be and he would get help.

Then I saw something weird over his shoulder while he was Googling something. A whole load of Instagram account names, women's names. I will probably get shot down for doing this, but I looked at his phone while he was asleep. He has a hair fetish and there were hundreds of different Instagram accounts he is looking at and a weird website where he is paying to watch women masturbate with their hair, as well as have men having sex with their long hair, basically. I also noticed that he is looking at this stuff sometimes as soon as I have left his house, sometimes while I am there asleep.

The other morning I got up and saw him looking at his phone with a roll of toilet paper in his hand. I had attempted to initiate sex with him that morning but he said he had to get ready for work.

I have very long hair and have tried to be "sexy" with it, like these Instagram women... who all look like they're very, very young, by the way... but he's not getting hard. If he does even a little but it quickly just goes soft.

Last week I went to his house and there were loads of scrunched up bits of toilet paper full of dried semen. It was the last straw. He's now refusing to talk about it.

Should I leave him? We get on really well in other ways but I can't handle the secretiveness and feeling as if I will never have sex again if I stay with him.

OP posts:
Beamur · 06/10/2025 13:41

Can't see how this will work out well for you tbh. Not your fault. He's in the grips of an intense fetish and is not communicating with you or at all interested in your needs.

Gruffporcupine · 06/10/2025 13:41

You aren't sexually compatible. If a guy can't get an erection in the early stages, where he's supposed to find you the most irresistible, then that says it all. Let him wank off to weird shit on someone else's time

rainbowsinheaven · 06/10/2025 13:42

I’d run for hills. He sounds utterly grim

daddysgirlnot · 06/10/2025 13:42

Run xx

FeralWoman · 06/10/2025 13:42

Leave him.

Followthesunshine · 06/10/2025 13:43

Run a mile from this as quickly as possible!

HappyAsASandboy · 06/10/2025 13:43

I would leave him in your circumstances.

You haven’t know him that long
Your sec life is non-existent
Your partner knows what the problem is but hasn’t stopped wanking to online porn
Your partner has not been honest with you about what the problem is

This will not get better.

ForTipsyFinch · 06/10/2025 13:44

What does ‘very very young’ mean?

Aside from that, I felt creeped out just reading this post. I could well just be prudish but I would leave him to it.

Sex not ever happening from late August to now is also very uncommon. He isn’t able to have a sexual relationship with you, he’s probably got porn rot.

Tamfs · 06/10/2025 13:46

Throw him back. He clearly can get an erection, just not for a real life woman he is in an actual relationship with.

PashaMinaMio · 06/10/2025 13:46

HappyAsASandboy · 06/10/2025 13:43

I would leave him in your circumstances.

You haven’t know him that long
Your sec life is non-existent
Your partner knows what the problem is but hasn’t stopped wanking to online porn
Your partner has not been honest with you about what the problem is

This will not get better.

And you will never be able to cut your hair!! 😂
Run!

Empress13 · 06/10/2025 13:48

Eewwww how disrespectful doing it whilst your asleep run for the hills!

Farside99 · 06/10/2025 13:48

Let someone else have him, life is too short to waste your youth with someone that is just going to stress you out

RealEagle · 06/10/2025 13:50

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MO0N · 06/10/2025 13:52

Why are you even asking OP?!

Bluffinwithmymuffin · 06/10/2025 13:54

Definitely end the relationship. No point trying to discuss this with him; just leave him to it and move on.

isthesolution · 06/10/2025 13:54

If sex is important to you then you need to leave. If you aren’t bothered about sex (which certainly isn’t how it sounds) then it can work.

CaffeinatedSeagull · 06/10/2025 13:55

When you try to talk to him about it, what does he say? Does he admit to having a problem and is he willing to get help / see a therapist?

If he isn’t, then definitely run. It’ll only become a bigger cause of frustration for you both in the future… and you breaking up with him might be the kick he needs to address the issue.

Meandmyguy · 06/10/2025 13:55

Should you leave him.

FFS, yes.

The very, very young was enough.

WT absolute F.

OrangeCrushes · 06/10/2025 13:56

Ew. LTB.

it's funny you said that this was the last straw but you are still questioning what to do.

ComedyGuns · 06/10/2025 13:59

rainbowsinheaven · 06/10/2025 13:42

I’d run for hills. He sounds utterly grim

This!

Not only does he have an intense fetish, he doesn’t even bother to clean up afterwards. Can you imagine what living with him would be like…

user0345437398 · 06/10/2025 13:59

He's addicted to porn and can't get off without it.

The women he's looking at confirm to porn fantasies and help.

He's probably watching violent porn so can't get off without that kind of stuff happening. Can't do intimacy.

Has he ever asked to choke, spit on, or degrade you to get off?

Farside99 · 06/10/2025 14:00

ComedyGuns · 06/10/2025 13:59

This!

Not only does he have an intense fetish, he doesn’t even bother to clean up afterwards. Can you imagine what living with him would be like…

This was my first thought, which man in their 30s can't even put their cum rags in the toilet. If the story is actually genuine in the first place.

NewYorkSummer · 06/10/2025 14:07

Loads of scrunched up pieces of toilet paper with semen in them? Really? I’d be dumping him for being a filthy slob more than anything.

AlexaAdventuress · 06/10/2025 14:08

Yes, this isn't likely to end well. It sounds like his fetish goes far beyond merely finding women with long hair attractive, and means that it's only a certain type of internet content that works for him. Plus he's a messy bugger!

Judging by the amount of hair fetish related material on the internet, there's clearly a market out there, so it isn't that unusual. It's hard to control the things that slip unbidden into our minds and turn us on, and it's not as if there is any terribly effective (or ethical!) conversion or aversion therapy that he could pop down to the GPs surgery and obtain.

But it's just not going to work as a romantic relationship, is it? No matter how nice he seems in other ways.

Whereismyfleeceblanket · 06/10/2025 14:10

He has no intention of giving you a decent sex life. He is happy with the one he has with his hand.
Ltb.

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