Real Phobias!

Some people are afraid of Spiders. This, I feel, is fair.

They are nasty buggers: big, hairy mothers with hundreds of beady eyes and big fecking fangs.

Some fear heights; which I also feel is fair.

There is real danger here. You could fall off a height and die, for example; or worse: fall off a height and land on your keys.

But some phobias are just plain fucking stupid.
I swear to God that these phobias are all real, and if you are interested they are taken from the following book:
Geddes and Grosset, Understanding Phobias. 
Childrens Leisure Porducts Ltd., 2000.
ISDN: 185534 938 8.

You simply couldn't make this shit up...

Air Polution:
Misophobia


Alcohol and alcoholic drinks:
Methyphobia 


Anger - fear of anger in oneself or others:
Angrophobia


Atomic bombs and explosions - both bombs and nuclear plant explosions: 
Atomosphobia


Baldness - fear of balding in others or becoming bald: 
Peladophobia

Beards and bearded men:
Pogonophobia


Beautiful women:
Caligyne phobia


Bed - fear of going to bed:
Clinophobia


Beggars and tramps - fear of "out of the ordinary" people:
Hobophobia


Bicycles:
Cyclophobia


Celestial bodies - stars, planets, sun, moon, comets, meteors or cosmic events:
Cometophobia


Chins:
Geniophobia


Clothing:
Vestibophibia


Clowns:
Coulrophobia


Coitus - fear of sexual act:
Coitophobia


Computers -
Cyberphobia


Cooking:
Mageirocopobia


Crosses and crucifixes, crossroads:
Staurophobia


Dancing:
Chorophobia


Decision making:
Decidophobia


Defecation:
Rhypophobia


Devil, devils and demons:
Demonoorphobia


Doctors:
Iatrophobia


Drinking:
Dipsophobia


Erection - fear of losing erection:
Medomalacuphobia


Eye patches - fear of people with them or the patches themselves:

Eyes:
Ommetaphobia


Faeces:
Coprophobia


Fish:
Ichthyophobia


Flashing lights:
Selaphobia


Flowers:
Anthophobia


Foreigners:
Xenophobia


Friday 13th:
Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Genitals - both male or female:
Kolpophobia


Good news:
Euphobia

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Gravity:
Barophobia


Great mole rat:
Zemmiphobia (I stress again at this point, that these are all real!!)


Hair:
Chaetophobia


Heaven:
Ouranophobia

Hell:
Hadephobia

Homosexuals:
Homophobia


Ideas:
Toleophobia


Kissing - fear of kissing or being kissed


Knees:
Genuphobia


Knowledge:
Epistemophobia


Laughter:
Geliophobia


Long words:
Sequipedalophobia (winner of this weeks "spot the irony" competition)


Machines:
Mechanophobia


Obesity:
Obesophobia

Old people:
Gerontophobia


Opening ones eyes:
Optophobia

Otters:
Lutraphobia


Peanut butter clogging up mouth:
Arachibutyrophobia


Penis - fear of penis, especially erect:
Icthyphallophobia


Phobia itself - fear of developing a phobia:
Phobophobia (runner up in this weeks "spot the irony" competition)


Prostitutes:
Cyprianophobia


Rods - fear of being beaten with a rod
Rhabdophobia


Shellfish:
Ostraconophobia


Staring - fear of being stared at:
Opthalmophobia


Trees:
Dendrophobia


Ventriloquists dummies:
Automatonophobia


Work - or fear of the ability to work or function:
Ergasiophobia