Schediaphilia is the Paraphilia that you have a strong preference for cartoon/anime characters over real life people. This can be romantically, erotic or whatever.

I’ve seen some research online that some exclusive Schediaphiles/Fictophiles ( Exclusive meaning they only care about the cartoons/fictional characters ) say they are bothered by it and have intense emotion for their fictional crushes and wishes they were real. That real people couldn’t give them solace and they rely on their fictional crush for satisfaction. Others I’ve seen are not bothered by it at all and welcome it- finding fictional/cartoon characters more pleasing and not have to bother anyone for their personal needs.

Think of that one Japanese guy who married Married Hatsune Miku- pretty sure he is a ficto/schediaphile 100%.

What about you guys? Thoughts on this paraphilia? Do you feel you are one yourself?

I personally think I am but not an exclusive one as I do find people sometimes attractive but only if I really get to know them. I like people for who they are on the inside not the outside haha. Otherwise tho cartoons/anime make up like 80% of my indulgence for porn and such.

Curious on thoughts here if any. Thanks for y’alls time.

I do have problems when feeling attracted to real people. I'm suffering a bit of mysanthropy and it's hard to connect with people. Thinking of my standards, I think I need a girl that cares for her appareance, is willing to cooperate and is strict in her personal values; also applying some "conservative" values cuz, honestly, I'm not into polygamy, cheating or whatever messed up shit when it comes to marriage.

I think they're pretty high standards honestly. Many girls hit on caring for their appareance and fail in everything else. I'd also like to say I don't care for physical appareance at all, but I think it can affect me in ways I'm uncapable to control so, while I'm conciouss of attraction, I'm conciouss of how they can try to fuck me off because of this attraction. I think the attribute I'd value the most in this regard would be modesty; caring about appareance, but not looking at beauty like it's more than it really is. Beauty is overhyped in society, much less valuable in everything else.

I'm sure I wouldn't be like completely into fictional characters. I still believe sex with woman irl is better than masturbating to fictional characters. Not all the time. You can get some pretty terrible experience or fuck a virgin or a unexperienced girl that doesn't know how to play along, but as long as sex is good, good sex is better than a good gooning session by sure. What I struggle with is feeling comfortable with any romantic partner. Quite ironic for a user of this site, but I think some girls began to hate me cuz I appeared emotionally unavialable. I struggle to get past sexual innuendo and rush towards romantic feelings.

As with fictional characters in the romantic sense, I think I don't care that much. I've seen very fascinating romances and I even wish I was there, but I feel like I'm even better off letting the characters be than intruding in the relationship, so my waifus are just mainly to say "I like that girl" than to say I would seriously marry her lol. Like, yeah, some anime waifus accomplish all my standards and even go beyond, but because they're fictional and so their fiction is better than me.

Ah I see. Sorry to hear about some of your strides there. I think it’s fine to have standards- even the ones that you have that you feel are high. I hope you find what you’re looking for one day and even if not I hope you have happiness either way.

Doesn't apply to me, I love irl women as much as fictional ones.

No, I also love irl hotties. I mostly jerk off to hentai cause 1. it's alot more creative and 2. It's not nearly as exploitative as the porn industry is

That and it's usually a little awkward to talk about what sexual things you'd do to real life celebrities. It's one thing to say "I'd fuck Black Widow's brains out" it's another thing to say the same about Scarlett Johansson who you don't know and has her own personal sex life

But I have nothing against real life attractive people on principle

I like both and have had legitimate crushes on both

I don't think I've ever heard of the term "Schediaphilia" before. I do remember a subreddit that was like a bunch of strange weebs creepily obsessing over their waifus, doing things like building little shrines for them, or celebrating their birthday with their picture on a cake, but I never really knew it was seen as a clinical paraphilia.

Interesting....

I think it's a pitiable condition, assuming that this is actually a medical condition that can't be easily controlled. I do feel sorry for those who are super sad that they can't be with their waifu, because in some ways, I kinda get it. However, I don't think it's healthy behavior that should be encouraged and seen as a superior alternative to being attracted to real women. And yeah, I'll admit I think it's super cringe whenever I see these kinds of people posting or talking about it like it's something to be proud of. There's gotta be a healthy limit to these things, I feel.

As for myself..... Nope. I totally love real life hot women.

The beauty of it is that real life hot women and fictional waifus are beautiful in their own different way.

I'd go as far as to say they have their own pros and cons if they were to be compared to one another. Sex with an attractive real woman is obviously superior to masturbating to porn on a screen, meanwhile fictional waifus obviously can be perfected in ways that real women cannot be. Fictional women can fulfill many different criterias that would be unlikely-to-impossible for a real woman to fulfill. But because fictional waifus only exist through a screen, they will never beat a real woman's warm touch. And so on and so forth.

I am a firm believe of 3DPD

Thanks op, I've known about these people, but I've never heard the word. I've learned something today on a porn forum.



This for me. I also feel a little bit similar problems IRL to those EyeViewer mentioned, but I don't think it's connected to my attraction for 2D in porn. I've been doing this ever since I've discovered anime in general in my teenage years, and I've been more social those days.

I think the important qualitative distinction between what most people here and true schediaphils, the "point of no return" here, when you start to form a parasocial relationship with the subject of your fantasy. While I may talk about waifus and such, and how i would do this and that to certain characters, I only fantasize about that character being real (or that entire scenario, including potentially entire fantasy settings, being real, with me in it), and talk about it as such - but do not really think of them as such, and are not attached to them as such. While the people who marry their chosen characters, put this in an entirely different mindset.
So yeah, I think OP's question is a good one, these two types of attractions are not on the same scale.

With that said, I cannot even imagine what is going on in the mind of a person like that. My cynical side would like to say it's performative on some degree, that they are trying to communicate something to the world that it's not picking up, but I truly don't know.

I'm from a generation where there is no such thing. We associate with people.

This generation? LOLOLOLOL

They even have a paraphilia for Vtuber models and it's pathetic and disgusting.