I am still recovering after the shock of a hysterical phone call from my two children while they were at their Dad's house. My ex - Heavybones - has always been addicted to pornography. Not tame Carry on movie stuff but restricted publications, websites you have to pay for and hard core films. It is not something we ever agreed on and resulted in us getting separate computers - every time I turned on the household computer, a giant pair of breasts would greet me.
Heavybones always maintained he didn't look at any of this stuff but when I got my own computer, it strangely did not feature the same images of breasts and couples copulating every time I logged on. In fact, I have never had a single sexual image appear on the three computers I have had subsequently.
Miss 13 and Master 8 telephoned squealing from their Dad's house a few days ago because they had turned on the Playstation their Dad had last used and it automatically loaded up a film featuring ladies with very big breasts pretending to teach. It fascinated and appalled them at the same time. I did not know what to say. They had been left alone for 15 minutes in the house - that was not the issue - but I was horrified they saw such images and knew it was their father's particular "interest". On some level, I can imagine the eight year old boy just found it funny and has no idea what sex is even so he would not understand why it was wrong. Miss 13 though knew and was embarrassed and protective of her father. He returned and found them in this state and told them it was on an old disk that should have been deleted bla bla bla..... He made all sorts of excuses and talked to Miss 13 about it being "nothing" and he was furious when she told him they had rung me. He then upset Miss 13 by saying it would all end up a big fuss and lawyers would get involved which was completely unnecessary. I never talked to him at the time and certainly said nothing about lawyers to the children. I just told them to turn off the Playstation and let Dad know what he had left in there.
When we separated, we went through court-assisted mediation. One of the conditions of Heavybones having equal custody of the children was that he would not share a computer with them; if they needed computer access, he had to buy them their own separate one which he did. I thought that would protect them from his pornography addiction. He didn't even have a Playstation to worry about then and I didn't know you could download x rated films on to your computers and watch them on Playstations. How naive I was.
After stewing for a day, I have now told the ex if that ever happens again, the children will be removed from his care.
Is my eight year old now going to imagine when he is older his teachers will be topless huge breasted dolly birds? God I hope not.
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