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i wish i could see this picture for the first time again
Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).
That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.
So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.
You can’t just breeze over something like “the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha” without at least linking a 20 minute video breakdown of this man’s descent into madness.
Oh is Ogtha not common knowledge? Eight years ago this was posted on reddit:
Two years ago, we got this update on the life of this roachfucker:
TLDR it's a guy who became obsessed with human-sized roaches with human intelligence after reading Kafka in high school, an obsession which eventually came to monopolize his romantic interests (and has sporadically had catastrophic impacts on his life ever since).
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Shh... We're reading about the cockroach wife tulpa
I think it's really funny that even though the comparison rings true, even Ogtha's husband actually treats real women with more respect than gamerbros because he never once blames his ex-gf for feeling weird and he's very honest with the women he hooks up with that it's just a one night stand. So gamerbros interact with and talk to even less human women than the guy with a cockroach wife tulpa
See this is an interesting set of tags bc you're in the right track... the therapist would likely do nothing. Therapy isn't there to make people "normal", it's there to help us continue navigating society and having a healthy life without our afflictions hurting our ability to do so. This guy very likely has a paraphilia, especially since even though he's lovingly faithful to his wife, he very clearly states he's attracted to giant female cockroaches. Paraphilias are way more common than people think and they're mostly harmless, a lot of them being difficult to even enact, but other times enacting them can be extremely harmful and those are actually defined as paraphilic disorders (famously, pedophilia and zoophilia)
That being said, oftentimes treatment for ANY paraphilia is ONLY sought out when the urge to act on it (when harmful) is genuinely debilitating, when the thoughts surrounding the attraction are debilitatingly overwhelming, or when acting on it can be harmful/dangerous for the patient (i.e. autassassinophilia, coprophilia, etc)
In this guy's case, he is happy and healthy, he has a job, friends, a family, and he's surprisingly even at peace with the fact that he'll never be able to have Ogtha as anything but a very vivid figment of his imagination. So there's no reason for him to seek psychological help, but if he does, the therapist in question would probably just encourage him to keep doing what he's doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
