A worried girlfriend has confessed to an agony aunt that she fears her boyfriend is obsessed with his sex dolls - after she stumbled across a secret dungeon.
Several weeks ago, her boyfriend was ill with food poisoning, and rang his girlfriend begging for dry toast and bottles of fizzy lemonade, she explains.
She rushed to his side to make sure he was comfortable, and by 2pm he was asleep.
She noticed that his keys were on his bedside table, whereas usually he keeps them on a chain on his jeans.
Writing to the Daily Star agony Aunt Jane O'Gorman, the anonymous woman detailed how she "slipped out into the hall and let myself into his secret room."
She goes on: "Turning the lock I felt a brief flicker of guilt, but curiosity got the better of me. I was met by six pairs of dead eyes.
"His dolls were propped up around the room in various stages of undress.
"I played with their hair and stroked them. All were blonde (I’m red-headed) and boasted fabulous, shapely figures (I’m a bit flat-chested).
"On a king-sized bed were strewn several sex toys and many tubes of lubrication. I had to steady myself because it was like looking into a nightmarish world of sleaze.
"I was forced to lock up and leave when a delivery man arrived at the front door."
She questioned if he loves them more than he loves her as she told the agony aunt about her boyfriend's "room dedicated to his 'girls'."
She added that it is "kept permanently locked and he doesn’t think I’ve been inside, but I have."
The woman went on to say that she is struggling to understand what she saw, and doesn't know what to think.
She added: "The fact that none of his 'girls' look anything like me is weird and vaguely insulting.
"Also, imagining him in that room, pleasuring himself with those piles of plastic, is mind-blowing."
Agony aunt Jane's response was uncompromising; she said several lines were crossed on the day her boyfriend was ill.
The room was kept deliberately private from her, but she took his keys and let herself in, touched his belongings and by doing so found out his preferred doll is a buxom blonde.
However, she said it's understandable that the woman does not know where to stand.
She asked: "Has your boyfriend ever explained to you why he needs these other sex aids when you are a healthy, happy human? Why aren’t you enough for him?"
Lots of people have interesting hobbies, but a whole room dedicated to latex and silicone is extreme and must have cost him a lot of money.
She added: "Are you willing to tolerate or compete with his plastic hareem or is this where you decide it’s all too much?
"Do you come clean and tell him that you peeked in his room while he was vulnerable and helpless?
"My feeling is that you’re not going to be able to get that image out of your mind for a very long time.
"If resentment is now going to build, then you need to excuse yourself – and leave him to knock himself out…"