Meanings
plural gonophobias
- countableuncountableAn excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
This, in my opinion, was a true case of gonophobia, fostered and encouraged by a druggist for financial reasons.
1899, Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal - Volume 2, page 503 more examples
Sexual fear with regard to the woman may assume various modalities which disguise it from the instinct itself; the most frequent are syphilophobia and gonophobia, and also the suspicion of being deceived, of being made a cuckold,...
1932, Gregorio Marañón, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions, page 190Not uncommonly the constantly recurring vaginal discharge, or the non-gonococcal urethritis in the male has led to the development of a gonophobia.
1961, Ralph Campbell Lindsay Batchelor, Marjorie Murrell, A short manual of venereal diseases and treponematosis, page 223Symptomatology had first been noted during an Ob-Gyn rotation, when flushing, blushing, gonophobia, and sympathetic labor pains and hot flashes occurred.
1980, The Caducean, page 151
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