Ask Beastly: The Other Man

A reader's husband cheated and now he wants to fuck the other guy.

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Hey Beastly, love reading your responses and hoping you can give me some advice.

I'm a guy married 5 years to another guy, together for 15 years total. A year ago I found out my husband had sex with a guy he'd been sexting for a couple of years. I confronted him on his infidelity and he at first denied everything but then a day later admitted to fucking this other guy and said he was relieved that I actually found out because the guilt was getting too much for him.

I've been having this fantasy of wanting to fuck this guy that my husband cheating on me with. I have been chatting to him for a month now and he is keen to hook up with me (obviously not knowing he slept with my husband as well).

My question is, am I normal to want to fuck this guy, am I sick or what? Do I just want to experience what's so special about this other guy? What do you think?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Hey friend,

I don’t think you’re abnormal, and I certainly don’t think you’re sick. I just think you’re seeking vengeance and using someone else to do so. That’s unethical because it uses someone else without their consent for a hidden motive — to get back at your partner or to assuage your own jealousy by proving to yourself that you’re just as desirable, just as fuckable, as your husband is.

It can be fun to get competitive. I get competitive with my partner, and jealousy can arise from that. He and I often lust after the same people, and it can be wounding to know someone is into him and not me. In those moments, it can be tempting to do everything in my power to fuck that unattainable person, that other guy, so that I can “win” him as a conquest and see myself as equally powerful, equally sexy, as my partner. But I have to remember, in those moments, that the feelings I’m having are between me and my partner and aren’t really about this third guy at all. This outside guy is a free agent, someone who hurts and feels — a real person. He’s not a tool to soothe my wounded ego or boost my self-confidence.

People aren’t conquests. They’re people. We can call our darlings "trophy boys" and "trophy husbands" lovingly, but no one is really a trophy. No one is a prize to be won, a notch in the belt to boost social standing or self-confidence. Everyone knows someone who views their fucks this way and everyone wishes they didn't. There is, in fact, no greater put-off than guys who have sex with me only so they can tell their friends about it (because I'm a hooker, because I have a rather visible online profile, because I write about sex, whatever). It happens more than you think and it's gross.

I want to stress that what you’re feeling is normal. It’s probably a combination of jealousy and curiosity, envy and desire, insecurity and lust. And I want to add this caveat: if you were communicating to your partner that you wanted to do this, it could actually be a fun idea, maybe even a good idea. For you two as a couple, this could be your way to start exploring non-monogamy and opening up your relationship to include outside sex — regular thirds, special threesomes — but only if everyone was being honest and sharing their desires with each other.

It seems like that’s not what is happening. You want to bang this guy behind your partner’s back, without his knowledge, and this guy doesn’t know you’re the husband of a man he fucked once (and sexted with for some time). These facts betray a less healthy motive. If you don’t think this pursuit is driven by revenge and insecurity but by genuine sexual interest, tell your partner that you want to fuck the guy he fucked. If you can’t do that, you shouldn’t fuck this guy.

If you go through with it, it could be disastrous for your relationship, and you probably won’t feel much better after — you probably won’t have your jealousy stripped away, your envy smoothed clear, your insecurity salved. You’ll probably just feel guilty and icky.

The only thing that can tip the scale and bend events to the positive and ensure a better outcome for all is full disclosure. Consider telling your husband that you’re turned on at the idea of fucking this guy. That might be an awkward confession, but it could lead to a better relationship in which you both give each other permission to fuck others or even decide to have threesomes together.

Honesty improves any situation. Dishonesty — going behind someone’s back or lying by omission — always makes a situation worse.

Love, Beastly

Yea I’m 14 and can’t masturbate and I have another way of pleasing which is different from the classic up-down hand thingy and when I do the hand thingy I can’t do it it won’t work

Hi there,

What’s the problem? There’s no “right way” to give jack your dick. When I started masturbating, I just rubbed my crotch on a pillow and, later, jacked my dick back and forth and sideways like driving a stick shift. I did not learn the “up and down” method until someone told me about it, close to a year after I started pleasing myself. During that year I still came — it still felt good.

As long as you’re not hurting yourself, you’re allowed to give yourself whatever feelings or sensations that feel good to you. If it works, your jack-off method is valid — it works for you. Everyone experiences pleasure differently.

The only thing I’d encourage — to you and to everyone who is very young and discovering the wonders of masturbation — is open-mindedness and total self-acceptance. You’re allowed to do this. It’s normal and healthy to do this. Enjoying your body isn’t evil or wrong. You’re not sinning or deviating from the norm — you’re just a person coming into sexual maturity, and that’s fun.

Be gentle with yourself. There are many ways to experience pleasure and all bodies are different. There are no rules or standards. As long as you don’t do anything inappropriate — masturbating in front of someone else without their consent, for example — you’re allowed to explore any way of touching yourself that feels good.

Love, Beastly