Sexophobia is the fear of sexual organs or sexual activities and, more broadly, the fear of sexuality itself. It can describe the attitude of an individual person, shaped by their educational background, personal experience and psyche, or the general stigmatization directed at sexuality by collective entities such as religious groups, institutions and states.
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Type of Phenomenon Diagnostic ChapterAnxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2 Connections
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Source Sexophobia (Wikipedia)
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1. Sexophobia (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia Sexophobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)
In Branch: Abnormal Psychology, Lead section
Sexophobia is the fear of sexual organs or sexual activities and, in a larger sense, the fear of sexuality.
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