Q: Im worried this may be above your pay grade. LOL. My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly five years. When we first got together, he shared a fetish with me, which has honestly gotten out of hand. Im not close-minded and I genuinely love pleasing people, and my approach to sex has always been, Whatever turns you on, turns me on! But his fetish has crossed the line from kink to obsession. Not to mention the onus of his fetish falls entirely on me.
So, the big reveal: my boyfriend is a urophiliac. But not just your garden variety one. If he doesnt get to watch me pee every single time he gets angry. The first two years of our relationship were terrifying because if I peed while he was at work, he would throw a fit of epic proportions. So, I would hold it in. This caused UTIs and other problems. But he still insists that I must hold it in for as long as possible so I can give him a strong stream every time. I also have to let him watch me poop, which is embarrassing as hell, because I pee when I poop. If I need to pee in the middle of the night, I have to wake him upwhich makes him madso instead of waking him up I hold it in all night. It has gotten to the point where his obsession has become mine. But its not sexy for me.
After I had our child, I literally wasnt allowed to have thirty seconds alone in the bathroom after shoving a human out of my vagina in full view of ten adults I did not know. Even thenin the hospitalhe had to watch me pee. I cant use the bathroom in public unless I videotape it for him. Im in hell. I havent had a private piss nobody has watched or made me feel guilty about for FIVE YEARS. I feel like my humanity is being leached away. Ive said all these things to him, and He. Does. Not. Care. This has taken over my entire life. Sorry if its weird. Ive read your columns for years and youre the only person I can ask about this. LOL. I dont want to break up my family over this. Help me!
Unrelenting Requirements Inducing Nervous Exhaustion
A: You dont wanna break up your family over this, URINE, but I sure do. To be perfectly frank, Id like to break up your boyfriends skull over thisfiguratively speaking. Im not advocating violence. Its just that after reading your letter I wanna figuratively slap your boyfriend upside the head so hard his figurative skull breaks into a thousand figurative pieces. And while I dont think your question is above my pay gradewhat you need to do seems obvious to me and will, no doubt, be obvious to everyone who reads your letterI nevertheless called in a couple of experts.
Dr. Ian Fields is a urogynecologist who specializes in pelvic floor disorders and bladder conditions. I shared your letter with him to get his expert opinion on the risks youre taking with your physical health, URINE, but before Dr. Fields would address the health risks youve being bullied into running, he wanted to address the elephant in the bathroom and the bedroom and the delivery room.
Lets call this behavior what it is: abuse, said Dr. Fields. This woman needs to get out of this controlling and abusive relationship. I am in complete agreement with Dr. Fields, URINE: youre not indulging a kinky boyfriend, youre being terrorized (your own words) by an abusive boyfriend. Leave him.
In terms of health risks, there are many, Dr. Fields continued. Keeping large amounts of urine in your bladder is a set up for recurrent urinary tract infections. These infections can track upwards to the kidneys in some cases and cause an infection in the kidney called pyelonephritis. Recurrent bouts of pyelonephritis can lead to permanent kidney damage. And you dont want to lose your kidneysonce they lose function, it doesnt return.
Destroying your kidneys isnt the only health risk youre running, URINE.
Keeping large amounts of urine in the bladder can lead to a bladder stretch injury and may lead to long-standing urinary retentionor the inability to empty the bladderwhich may or may not recover over time, said Dr. Fields. The bladder is a pretty hearty muscle and can recover from many insults but repeated damaged like this could do irreparable harm. In addition, these insults could lead to overactive bladder and with time, to urgency urinary incontinence, that is, leakage that you cannot control when you get the urge to go to the bathroom.
So, URINE, the health risks youre running to avoid your boyfriends anger cannot be described as insignificant. Now lets talk about the emotional and psychological damage your boyfriend has already inflicted on you.
If this woman came to me for individual therapy, I would be compelled to point out to her that her boyfriend is physically and emotionally abusing her, said therapist Marissa Myers, LCP. Getting uncomfortably angry and throwing a fit of epic proportions are examples of manipulative behaviors abusers use to make sure their victims know whos in charge. The disregard this man has for her physical health and safety raises the bar to physical abuse in my opinion.
Myers frequently works with individuals and couples to help them resolve conflicts around sex and intimacy, URINE, but she would not work with youalone or as a couplewith the goal of saving this relationship.
Working with this reader on how to compromise or communicate better regarding this issue would amount to facilitating the continuation of an abusive relationship, said Myers. My advice to her is to begin gathering resources, telling safe people, and planning a safe exit. Once shes safely out of the relationship, therapy can help her avoid getting into another abusive relationship.
Which is not to say this is your fault, URINE. Your boyfriend manipulated you with his anger and leveraged your own desire to be a good partner against you. And while its fine to fantasize about watching your partner pee every time she pees, its unrealistic and unfair and unworkable to demand that your partner allow you to watch them every single time they take a piss.
Theres nothing LOL about any of this, URINE, and I know this isnt what you wanted to hear. Yours is one of those letters that makes me wish I had a time machine so I could take you back to the start of this relationshipfive years and one kid ago, back when your boyfriend first began terrorizing youand implore you to leave him before things escalated to this point. And while Im sure you love your kid and dont regret having that baby, URINE, you cant let your desire to keep your childs home intact prevent you from escaping the hell your boyfriend has made of your life. Take Myers advice: Make a plan, lean on supportive friends, take your kid, and get away from this man before your kidneys explode.
Q: Im a happily married (mostly) lesbian woman. I am somewhat attracted to men, but only in the context of a threesome with my wife. While I don't have any desire to sleep with men on my own, I do like giving handjobs to men along with the occasional blowjob. My wife knows about this and is fine with it. We can't really do much by way of threesomes right now for various reasons, so Im considering finding a guy (if this pandemic ever ends) to indulge me. My wife is a former sex worker and it bothers her that I do this for menjerk them off, blow themwithout any form of reciprocity. She said it's a service that I shouldn't be giving away for nothing. I see her point, but Im not interested in money. An exchange of services sounds interesting though! Like, I will jerk you off if you clean my bathroom or mow my lawn. I have two questions. First, what do you think about my wife's view on the subject? Second, what's the best way to find/approach someone who would be into an arrangement like this?
The System Called Reciprocity
A: Your wife doesnt enjoy giving men blowjobs or handjobs, TSCR, so she gets nothing out of blowing or handing some guy. Thats why her male clients had to pay her for her services. You, on the other hand, enjoy giving blowjobs and handjobs, TSCR, and that enjoyment is what you get out of them. Your wife sounds like one of those straight guys who doesnt understand why his gay best friend loves giving head even if the guy hes blowing doesnt return the favor and/or clean the shower.
As to finding someone who might be interested in being blown or jacked off by a lesbian in exchange for some light housework/yardwork, TSCR, theres this thing called the Internet. Maybe you heard Katie Couric talking about it on the Today show in 1994? Well, I think the Internet is going to catch on and there are these things on the Internet called hookup apps where you can post explicit personal ads. But be careful: if you post a personal ad that reads, "Married lesbian seeks houseboy, will milk for chores, your phone will blow up. I think thats meant figuratively, TSCR, but the Internet is so new I cant promise your phone wont literally blow up.
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