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New boyfriend and strange sex life

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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:
Netcurtainnelly · 12/10/2025 12:41

Shitmonger · 06/10/2025 14:13

Get rid of him, OP. You can do better. And to be blunt don’t date someone that much older than you. This one was single for a reason. There are plenty of men around our age that just haven’t found the right one yet and don’t have any weird hangups.

Ridiculous, there's good and bad in every age. This is not an age thing.

BloomingMagnolias · 13/10/2025 02:15

I've had trouble with this site. It wouldn't let me load newer or older posts and I've been unable to post a reply. Been busy as well, but yes, I've ended it.

He's turned it all back onto me, I'm being insensitive to his problems, we get on incredibly well so why am I making this into an issue, I should know how awful and embarrassed he feels that he can't get an erection and I need to be more patient and he's going to get help (almost said hard it is, then thought I best avoid a bad joke and made one anyway, cheeky me!).

I've shared what's happened with a couple of close friends and my Mum in fact, who are all telling me to back off and let him go back to how he was living his life, that this was probably a massive issue in his marriage, together with other stuff that I haven't even mentioned here. But this porn and fetish stuff has really, really pissed me off.

I'm certainly no nymphomaniac but he's making out that I am. Yes, I love sex, I am... was.. correction... attracted to him... but he has major issues that aren't fixable... and certainly not at all fixable if he even refuses to admit that there is a problem in the first place.

All the good stuff about him just fades away now after the way he has effectively gaslit me, turned it all around onto me and tried to make out that I am the one with the problem. Nope, just nope.

OP posts:
MO0N · 13/10/2025 09:04

It sounds as if he's deeply in denial and cannot accept that he is the one with the problem, ergo you are well-rid OP!

Purplebunnies · 13/10/2025 09:55

well done for ending it, op? How did you meet him btw?

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