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Red Pill Guys And Gals Who Love Them
The psychology of why some men and women are attracted to the repulsive
It starts without gender then goes horribly wrong
The scientific word for people who are attracted to what most people consider abhorrent is hybristophilia. A woman who wants a bad boy boyfriend serving prison time is sometimes hybristophiliac. A man who wants a woman who doesn’t want him can become a hybristophiliac. The term itself is genderless.
However, most people think of a female as hybristophiliac much more often, as it is also known as Bonnie and Clyde syndrome.
If you are attracted to someone powerful, who is also dashingly handsome, masculine, a bit risky, and adventurous, you are not however, not a hybristophiliac. You are just a regular woman or man, dude.
Bonnie and Clyde syndrome, and even Stockholm Syndrome, tends to create the visual image of a women who “falls for” her abuser. But there are exceptions, of course.
For example, a woman who marries a man in prison, has her own individual reasons. She may or may not be attracted to his dark past. If she is attracted to his dark past, such as Carol Ann Boone who married serial killer Ted Bundy, she likes the element of control, her special status (he would never hurt me — that’s how much…