Ask FreeloveMD | February 5, 2008
My husband and I have sex every night, still every morning or even hours after we do he looks at porn on the computer. I understand masturbating is normal but it hurts me so much and I can’t seem to get past it. Is something wrong with me for not being able to accept and understand it? I have suggested watching porn together but he says I make him feel uncomfortable. Why does he need to look up pictures by himself and why are they always females that have the opposite features of me? Please help, this is ruining our relationship.
Your husband has allowed his imagination to control him. He ought to be grateful that you’re so open minded about the whole subject. However, unless he is able to curtail his addiction he will have a distorted view of sex and sex with you and it will only get worse and worse. Seek counseling if possible. Go away for a week-end or longer to someplace that does not have access to the computer. Talk to him and tell him sex is more than fantasies and that you are real and he needs to treat you as such. Try to set a time (like a month) that he agrees not to look at porn on the computer. He needs to see that he’s treating sex simply as something that does not involve real people.
This question was answered by Joe, a love expert and FreeloveMD contributor.