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DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
okay I said I'd drop it and I'll eat a probe if I gotta but this is too good to not post

Interested to hear male perspectives re: nudes

quote:

Hi reddit, throwaway because husband knows I (25F) have reddit. I'm curious to hear people's perspectives, mainly mens, about an issue/question I have. Honest answers are appreciated.

My husband (26M) recently mentioned that I don't send him nudes/sexy photos anymore. It's true, I don't- I just didn't want to explain to him why.

The truth is that I don't see the point anymore. I know he looks up photos of women on IG and other places. These photos are free and easily accessible. So I just don't feel like I'm special anymore.

What's the point of sending sexy photos of myself when he has access to photos of women who are far more prettier with way nicer bodies than mine?

When I used to share these images with him I thought it was intimate. Now I feel like I'm just another photo in a gallery of many women in his head. He always tells me how much he loves my body etc, but it still doesn't make me feel sexy at all- which in turn continues the cycle of me not wanting to share photos.

He never talks about what he looks at, I just know he does look (friends tag him in photos etc). I know insecurity is a factor and I want to address my concerns with him but I want to hear the thoughts of others before I do.

Sex life is fine, it's being sexy at other times that's the issue.

tl;dr Guys, do you still find it special when your partner shares photos, depsite having access to others? And if you do, why do you still look at other photos?

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Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
My [15 F] mom [37 F] is mad because I burned my journal and paintings after I caught her snooping.

quote:

My mom always snooped in my stuff, reading notes my friends wrote me in school if I brought them home and stuff like that. And she looks through my trash for drawings and paintings I make but don't like enough to keep, because she wants them. She also looks in my art portfolio all the time even though I tell her that's private. Recently I thought my mom might be reading my journal. So to check, I tied a long hair around it and saw that the next week the hair was broken.

I was really mad, and I didn't want my mom treating everything I write and draw like her business anymore. So I took all my journals and my art portfolio to the fire pit outside and burned them. I was upset that I wouldn't have some of the memories I'd made written down anymore, but I thought it was worth it for my privacy. And a lot of my drawings were old and I can do better now.

My mom asked me a few days later where all my art and journals went, and I said "Why were you looking for them, I told you they are private." She just assumed I hid them or something.

Yesterday, she saw some of the metal rhinestones from my journal, and the metal clasp from my art portfolio in the firepit ashes, and realized that I'd burned everything. She blew up at me, saying I'd regret throwing away those memories, childhood memories are precious. And she was even madder about my art portfolio because I was going to use it to submit pieces to competitions and also apply for a summer program. And maybe even use it for college.

I just kept asking her why it was any of her business, and asking her if she'd read my journal. She wouldn't answer me.

She just keeps getting mad about it, like when she was reminded of the art program i won't get into in the fall, or for no reason at all.

I told her I don't care about the art program as much as i care about having privacy to express myself.

I don't know what to do now. I don't think she'll leave this be.

TLDR - My mom is furious with me for burning my journals and art because she snoops in it all the time and read my journal

Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

okay I said I'd drop it and I'll eat a probe if I gotta but this is too good to not post

Interested to hear male perspectives re: nudes

she should probably be taking to her husband about her feelings on this instead of the internet

just imo

Dienes
Nov 4, 2009

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College Slice

Milotic posted:

I’m thinking prison or indefinite detention sounds good?

[24F]My autistic [22M] brother is ripping my family apart and I've had it.

Hmm...his behavior changed in a setting where he was held accountable and then he relapsed when back in an environment where he wasn't held accountable. I wonder what the trick is......

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka

Brother Entropy posted:

she should probably be taking to her husband about her feelings on this instead of the internet

just imo

"No, I'm definitely not carrying around a grudge about my husband's porn habits, why do you ask?"

Though, there's an equivalent Goofus and Gallant strip for this kind of husband where Goofus leaves evidence that he's been looking at pornographic photos all over the place, while Gallant just uses Incognito Mode like a conscientious partner

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I’m not a porn addict says daily porn user who is mad if he cannae jerk ‘twa

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
Day one of sex ed should be handing everyone a slip of paper that says "CTRL-SHIFT-N" so they can go about their business without giving their parents and eventual live-in partners massive brain problems

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Haifisch posted:

My [15 F] mom [37 F] is mad because I burned my journal and paintings after I caught her snooping.

Definitely overboard but I can understand the desire to hide (or be rid of) things that are private when people keep snooping. I'd have just burned the diary/journal and kept the art for school and portfolios, what a waste to get rid of all that material.

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib
If I was the admissions person I'd giver her a spot in the art program FOR burning her artwork. All things are impermanent.

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
"I am personally threatened by my wife's obsession with romance novels, which is why I no longer see the point in taking her out on my pirate ship and bending her over the steering wheel"

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
Edit: double post

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

cyoa but I think wheel is sexier

Nightgull
Jan 22, 2018

TOTALLY NOT A CONSERVATIVE
or a fucking nazi
It's called a tiller you jackanapes.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

okay I said I'd drop it and I'll eat a probe if I gotta but this is too good to not post

Interested to hear male perspectives re: nudes
This is strange to me, like she obviously has made the conflation that you're worried about, but the husband is disappointed and wants pictures. I enjoy naked pictures of someone I'm with because I like them and I like knowing they're thinking of me in a sexy way, it's not driven by scarcity of pictures of naked women that's being temporarily relieved by you.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

This is strange to me, like she obviously has made the conflation that you're worried about, but the husband is disappointed and wants pictures. I enjoy naked pictures of someone I'm with because I like them and I like knowing they're thinking of me in a sexy way, it's not driven by scarcity of pictures of naked women that's being temporarily relieved by you.

Not empty quoting. This right here.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Squashing Machine posted:

"I am personally threatened by my wife's obsession with romance novels, which is why I no longer see the point in taking her out on my pirate ship and bending her over the steering wheel"

The bodices shall remain unripped!

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

Interested to hear male perspectives re: nudes

Sex life is fine, it's being sexy at other times that's the issue.

I guess one thing I'd ask is why it's her responsibility to keep her partner horny constantly. Being sexy during sex is enough for me, personally and it sounds drat tiring trying to be sexy every moment of every day.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

This is strange to me, like she obviously has made the conflation that you're worried about, but the husband is disappointed and wants pictures. I enjoy naked pictures of someone I'm with because I like them and I like knowing they're thinking of me in a sexy way, it's not driven by scarcity of pictures of naked women that's being temporarily relieved by you.

I think this is totally reasonable, but it's also reasonable to think about how those pictures will be used later when maybe you don't really want that person thinking of you sexually. Basically, in that moment it makes perfect sense but due to the permanency of digital images it's kind of inadvisable in a lot of situations. Besides, in this case she is obviously using the availability of pictures on the internet as an excuse because she's not really comfortable sending nudes, which is fine. It's also fine for her partner to ask about doing it as long as he's not applying pressure.

Someone post something else

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Haifisch posted:

My [15 F] mom [37 F] is mad because I burned my journal and paintings after I caught her snooping.

This is sad but girl have you heard of boxes with locks on them??

Kuros
Sep 13, 2010

Oh look, the consequences of my prior actions are finally catching up to me.

Jeza posted:

This is sad but girl have you heard of boxes with locks on them??

Not really gonna do much except get the mom mad at her even more. This is some narcissistic level of snooping.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Haifisch posted:

My [15 F] mom [37 F] is mad because I burned my journal and paintings after I caught her snooping.

quote:

And she was even madder about my art portfolio because I was going to use it to submit pieces to competitions and also apply for a summer program. And maybe even use it for college.

Just hide the stuff. Don't pick the most destructive possible option.

Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.

Jeza posted:

It's an established sociological 'fact' that modern generations are lonelier than previous ones, and not particularly controversial to link that to technology and its effect on romantic/platonic relationships. So I don't see the need for concern trolling or making out like it's projection.

It's actually because of neoliberal fracturing of communities, but don't let that stop the Liberal boomer train from training on.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Wow amazing we know these as facts and it’s only 1 thing!

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
My (21F) boyfriend (21M) wants me to get closer to God and I don't think I can

quote:

This is really me asking about people in relationships with someone of a different faith. I consider myself Agnostic kind of. I go through moments when I believe God is real, and sometimes when I look at the world I can't see this at all. I do think there has to be some higher power, and because I was raised in church and stuff I do pray sometimes, mostly just because I feel like I should just in case.

My boyfriend took me to church two Sundays ago and it was an uncomfortable experience. We went to the youth section because he still attends that (its for kids-age 21 for some reason). The 'pastor' was literally telling all the kids that homosexuality is wrong because the Bible says so, and whatever the Bible says is true is true, that he won't vaccinate his kids because he has God's protection and big Pharma stuff. He said everyone must read a chapter a day and said everything as if it was 100% truth to these young kids and my boyfriend was nodding at some of his words. It was very uncomfortable and he told everyone to find a spot and get close to God. Everyone prayed for almost an hour in their corners and my boyfriend told me her prayed for me a lot.

My boyfriend told me to pray for him as he goes to the Philippines for research for a month with no internet. He wants to get closer to God there and says he will read the Bible every day. I told him how growing up I was in foster care, experienced hurt from a lot of people, and did not have a good childhood at all. I would pray to go through all of that and nothing ever got better. Some of the worst things have happened to me by the biggest Christians and in the church. He says he believes in God because he Brought his family here with no money and he had a dream that God came to him saying his Dad was going to get a job and the next day he did. I grew up experiencing no good at all and my boyfriend (and my mom and a lot of people have said things like this) says "god gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers, God is preparing you for the good life you'll have in the future, that was the Devil that wasn't God, etc." Ive always found it strange when people use the logic "God is real because good things have happened to me." and when I was about 18 I stopped believing and going to church. My Bf tells me things that are in the Bible that proves realities, but I also can't believe that just because my parents were a certain religion and the one I was raised in HAS to be the true one, over others.

I feel like a lot of people in the subs I read say that their interfaith relatonships have worked because the atheist/agnostic person kind of seems to go along with it, attending church and doing religious things with the other. My bf and I have cried over this, because he says he really wants me to go to Heaven and see that God is great and he prays that I will be saved a lot. He gets frustrated sometimes because I don't believe certain things; he woke up with scratches and got upset because I basically shut down his claims about it being demons (he said something like theres always three scratches and he's read similar online). He tells me a lot about big celebs who have sold their souls to the Devil and there is just no way my mind could allow me to believe that.

If we do end up together like married and with children, I'd not be against having kids that go to church and such. I think I would pray but I'm not sure I can ever truly truly believe all the Bible stories (because I don't even know how it would be possible for the stories to be true after all these years, translations, and changes/new testaments." I was watching an old Oprah video where athiests/agnostics were being verbally attacked by the audience, who said things that strayed me further from ebelieving, like you're going to hell, the Bible says its true, and a lot of things that really made no sense at all. I don't know, I guess I'm just venting. Is there anything that I could do? Any other peoples experience?

TLDR: boyfriend wants me to be religious but I do not think I can truly believe in God. Im scared this will break us up.

EDIT: Hes not an anti-vaxxer, I asked him about it and he said that was crazy. But, I feel like he thinks he feels like he has to believe certain things because of the Bible. :/

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Play posted:

I guess one thing I'd ask is why it's her responsibility to keep her partner horny constantly. Being sexy during sex is enough for me, personally and it sounds drat tiring trying to be sexy every moment of every day.

There are two problems with this thinking:
1) There's no particular reason to think he wants pics to "be kept horny constantly". As I've said, personally this isn't really my scene, but we have testimony from multiple people ITT that the point isn't to see a boobie and get a boner. It's also possible and probably more likely that he saw this tradition they had as a fun little secret between the two of them and is worried that their relationship has deteriorated in some way such that she no longer feels like she wants to do it for him.
2) Any time your partner asks you to do something, especially something you used to do frequently but have stopped for reasons that have gone undiscussed, do you ask why doing the thing in question is "your responsibility," because that seems like a great way to get into a lot of unnecessary fights over basically everything

Jeza
Feb 13, 2011

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Kuros posted:

Not really gonna do much except get the mom mad at her even more. This is some narcissistic level of snooping.

I dunno. Mom got mad anyway but wouldn't admit to snooping when pressed. Better she get mad at a locked box and you get to keep your stuff but whatever, it's her stuff to burn and she's the best judge of whether it matters for poo poo or not.

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!
if his wife's pix are just soooooooo sexy, what's the porno for

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

if his wife's pix are just soooooooo sexy, what's the porno for

Wife ain't got a dick?

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
variety

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

if his wife's pix are just soooooooo sexy, what's the porno for

Masturbating, is my guess

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Haifisch posted:

My (21F) boyfriend (21M) wants me to get closer to God and I don't think I can

Tell him to go gently caress himself and throw up the horns. Hail Satan.

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
The man has cheated in his heart. He has set the Snapchat whores on the seven seats of High Hrothgar and cast me down. Never again will he see the cleave of my rear end reflected in an Arby's bathroom mirror in all 12 glorious megapixels

Jin Wicked
Jul 4, 2007

Well, I never!

Haifisch posted:

My [15 F] mom [37 F] is mad because I burned my journal and paintings after I caught her snooping.

Throw in eavesdropping on phone calls, spying when possible, and finding the stash of unused lunch money I kept in a small box under my bed and immediately jumping to the conclusion that I was prostituting myself, and that was my early teenage years.

Impossible to hide from someone that determined when you are at school many hours per day.

A lock would most likely just get you screamed at or circumvented.

Really the only option is to destroy it. I feel for her.

BTW, thanks thread, reading the stories and various derails here has helped me to recognize red flags, grow a backbone, and have healthier relationships in real life. And uh, thanks cautionary trainwrecks of Reddit.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Haifisch posted:

My (21F) boyfriend (21M) wants me to get closer to God and I don't think I can

Hot take: these 21-year-olds are not compatible and they should probably get around to figuring that out before getting into a long-distance scenario

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
i was pretty dumb at 21 :sigh:

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018

loquacius posted:

Hot take: these 21-year-olds are not compatible and they should probably get around to figuring that out before getting into a long-distance scenario

religion is a protected class so relationship court may assess a penalty

Kuros
Sep 13, 2010

Oh look, the consequences of my prior actions are finally catching up to me.

Jeza posted:

I dunno. Mom got mad anyway but wouldn't admit to snooping when pressed. Better she get mad at a locked box and you get to keep your stuff but whatever, it's her stuff to burn and she's the best judge of whether it matters for poo poo or not.

Mom would break the lock most likely.

DragQueenofAngmar
Dec 29, 2009

You shall not pass!

Caganer posted:

religion is a protected class so relationship court may assess a penalty

yeah the mentally disabled can't consent

e: meant this one guy. DEMON SCRATCHES? oh my HECK

DragQueenofAngmar fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jun 27, 2018

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Jeza posted:

This is sad but girl have you heard of boxes with locks on them??

smdh at the fully grown adult who can't get into the kind of lockbox a teenager could buy given unlimited access to it

Kid's screwed but at least she's mining that vein for some sweet sweet teenage melodrama, she's gonna have the time of her teens writing mopey poetry about how parents... just don't understand

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Haifisch posted:

My (21F) boyfriend (21M) wants me to get closer to God and I don't think I can

that's super crazy though because Bible doesn't say poo poo about any of that.

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Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
It was certainly a self destructive path to take but if she forever established with her mom that she's serious about the boundaries she sets, well, that's something some people never learn if this thread is anything to go by.

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