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Do I just need to accept that I was a Slut?

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cheekymonk · 01/03/2010 20:27

Evening All! I am happily married with one ds now but back in my uni days I was very promiscuous and did sleep with over 100 men roughly. I used to have to get really pissed to have the confidence to approach anyone (mainly due to being fat). I was lonely and although I had made some friends, I wanted a boyfriend too and in my warped mind sleeping with someone and being wanted for all of 30 mins or if I was lucky, the whole night was the next best thing.
I lived with 6 male housemates at the time who were appalled my behaviour. I did have threesomes/forsomes (and a fivesome too I think!) which was what pushed them into really despising me. One night I brought someone back, he went then I went back out and brought someone else back. It is shocking and I was out of control but those housemates were so vile.
I ended up recently sending a message to one of them on facebook. I wanted an apology but have today come home to this
"It has been a long time - 13 years in fact, which i why suddenly recieving this from you scares me that you have gone to the lengths to find me. Obviously some deep seated resentment there that you probably need to get off your chest/deal with through professional help. Either way - yes behaviour to you may not have been entirely appropriate, but my did you deserve it. Hoping to find brother figures? WHy on earth? I cannot imagine why you, a second year, felt the need to take a room with six male 4th year students. Most 2nd years got digs with friends they made in the 1st year...!!!! To refute some of your allegations about us. 2 of us had girlfriends, neither of them cheated on them. The rest of us, me included, enjoyed a significantly lower level of "single life" than you did - as you said it's what people do at uni...mainly with students met at the Student's Union", though, not with sailors they pick up in Joanna's night club. While I am all for enjoying the single life, both for men and women - you took it to such an extreme. 2 guys in one night I recall...one at about 1030 and then you going back out to bring another one back! Another stealing my bike from the hall! I hope my thoughts about the way YOU behaved are clear. I may have been a little immature back then and yes, 13 years is a long time. But do I have any regrets/would I behave differently to such a prolific enjoyment of the single life as yours now - I doubt it. I trust that I will not hear form you again."

I feel so gutted and worthless, just like I did then. I sincerely regret raking up the past. I am trying to understand now WHY I behaved so badly and try and reconcile the past but am having trouble.
Any thoughts? Do I just need to accept that i was a total slut back then??

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morningpaper · 01/03/2010 22:10

I don't think the gender of anyone involved is relevant, Dittany

ineedabodytransplant · 01/03/2010 22:10

Cheekymonk, I would be more embarrassed at admitting going to Joannas...lol Thankfully it's gone now.

Seriously, though. Although your behaviour was not very...ahem...normal if your husband can get over it/live with it then perhaps you should too. Unless you have any need to contact your ex-room mates then I wouldn't waste any more time on the subject.

And I agree that if a bloke was to act the way you did then he would at least be called a lucky barsteward (five somes..!!!) and this is a bloke posting who can't remember the last twosome...

thatsnotmymonkey · 01/03/2010 22:10

Oh and no you are not a slag, it is a terrible word.

dittany · 01/03/2010 22:12

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cheekymonk · 01/03/2010 22:12

I think its the seediness of it all. When I lost my virginity at 17, i couldn't face going home. I was at a nightclub, didn't know the bloke and it was on a muddy footpath. My Mum went mad and called me a slag in a Somerfield car park! I have always loved sex and the intimacy it creates but back then it was pretty murky. Its that judgement and condemnation I can't handle whatever the reason for it.
I'm not monstrous though!

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morningpaper · 01/03/2010 22:14

It was probably pretty scary for those men too, Dittany, when faced with up to 5 other men coming back to their house

Fourth year students are usually not party animals TBH

dittany · 01/03/2010 22:15

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cheekymonk · 01/03/2010 22:16

The 5 some was ONCE, morningpaper. They were never in any physical or any other kind of danger from my behaviour.

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MrsL123 · 01/03/2010 22:16

If you can't handle the judgement and condemnation, why on earth would you post on a public forum openly asking people if they think you were a slut, and then go on to detail everything you were ashamed about? I'm sorry but it just reeks of attention seeking to me.

bluetits · 01/03/2010 22:17

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dittany · 01/03/2010 22:18

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morningpaper · 01/03/2010 22:19

Dittany: Yes I think that five female strangers being bought back to a house with six female flatmates WOULD be scary!

morningpaper · 01/03/2010 22:19

I think the gender of any of these people is a total red herring

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cheekymonk · 01/03/2010 22:22

Often, the sex would start consensual but end up not so. Once, I had sex with this guy and he led me to a field quite far away from the nightclub we were in and I got pushed around in all this bramble and was covered in scratches and bruises, it had got so rough. One time, I was suddenly having anal sex when I had not agreed to that (3, 4 or 5 is not necessarily at once). I have had my hair yanked around and been pushed around. I have been told to shut up during sex when I yelped in pain as I was having sex under a pier and the stones were digging in my back. The same guy said you must be at least 18 stone and I thought well it didn't bother you a minute ago.
Horrendous and I can't believe I'm still here to tell the tale. If I am ever lucky enough to be blessed with a daughter I will do everything in my power to ensure she knows she is worthy and sex is something sacred and precious, not to be given away so lightly.

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hatesponge · 01/03/2010 22:22

I think a lot of the posts here are really quite unfair to the OP. Agree that the men in this flat sound like bullies. Kicking a door in is not typical student behaviour, you would have got sent down (ie kicked out, not sent to prison!) for deliberate and targeted vandalism like that when I was at uni.

their behaviour towards you was wrong. I suspect there was something defensive behind the email reply you got, because with the benefit of time its quite possible he - and the others - can see what they did was wrong.

I understand you still feel strongly about it now, but I agree you have to let it go. I would say however that I think even if you had sent some mea culpa email to this guy, or described how upset their actions had made you at the time, you would have still got a shitty reply.

Please leave this in the past. You have moved on, your life is very different from how it was 13 years ago. that is entirely to your credit

DuelingFanjo · 01/03/2010 22:22

I don't know - I just read the email you sent them and I think you were out of order sending it to be honest.

I think if I was him then I would think it pretty weird too.

bibbitybobbityhat · 01/03/2010 22:23

I really don't think its true that we are all only judgemental of women who have extremem numbers of sexual partners. There are some seriously "loose" men, for want of a better word, who I feel distinctly snidey about (Jack Nicolson, Warren Beatty, Russel Brand, Colin Farrell, etc).

I shouldn't even really say snide, judgey, or superior to, come to think of it. Sorry for is probably the most apt phrase.

dittany · 01/03/2010 22:23

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drloves8 · 01/03/2010 22:25

Cheekymonk i think you get off on "shocking people" , thats why you had sex with loads of partners, muliple partners etc. thats why you email that bloke from uni , thats why you posted here.
Are you finding married life dull, does your DH`s inability to be shocked at your former antics bore you ?
think you should find a good therapist/councellor.

cheekymonk · 01/03/2010 22:27

in reply to Mrs L123 because I still have a self destructive streak. there is part of me that wants understanding/cmpassion and another part that is well I am bad aren't I? As I said, there are still demons.

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overmydeadbody · 01/03/2010 22:28

I agree with SGB.

Cheeky, just move on. Leave the past in the past and forget about it. No good will come of hashing it all up again. For god's sake don't contact anyone else.

drloves8 · 01/03/2010 22:29

there you go again .
( look at me) ""i am bad arent i ?" - attention seeking !

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