In the happy homeland of Black Shark Otaku, there is an unwritten custom: If a man cheats, his wife picks up a kitchen knife and chops off his dick. Don’t think I’m bullshitting you—go search for it, news like this is everywhere, and there’s a lot of it. Some guys get it chopped off and it can still be reattached; others are extra ruthless and just chop it off and toss it in the river. This simple, brutal method of treating scumbag cheaters has also earned the approval of female teachers, who have spoken on behalf of most women: scumbags deserve to be chopped. Maybe it’s a bit extreme, and maybe one day Black Shark Otaku will get sent to China, get caught not paying for a repair job, and get chopped too, but this method also expresses the common people’s disdain for “two-timing” behavior. No matter how you slice it, having a girlfriend and still going after someone else is really not a moral thing to do.

I read a lot of forums, and there’s this pattern I keep noticing. Women-dominated forums are mostly people dunking on scumbag boyfriends. Men-dominated forums, porn boards aside, are mostly people tearing each other apart and crying about getting cuckolded. Getting cuckolded is a weird phenomenon, yet apparently a really common one. Are that many people actually getting cheated on? Are that many people actually choosing to forgive him or her? Either way, several forums I frequent have picked up new nicknames that don’t even match anymore. Greenery Street. Thunder Bluff. Some people don’t even bother being subtle and just rename the whole forum “Cuckold Forum.” So lately my browsing is nothing but green everywhere. Halal green, betrayed green, green this way and green that way. At first I found it gross, then I got used to it. I can’t even get someone to take me on as a rebound, so what do I care about cuckolding? This “getting cuckolded” setup is common in Japanese eroge too. The Japanese call it 寝取る, NTR. Basically your wife gets slept with, which means you got cuckolded. NTR games have their fans, but most of them are the same: you get a girlfriend, she gets screwed behind your back, and in the end you either forgive her or leave her. But think about it, why is NTR always by convention the woman betraying the man? What about the man betraying the woman? We call that cheating too, but it still can’t compare to the whole green-this-green-that internet culture, can it.