syphilophobia

plural syphilophobias · alternative syphiliphobia

1. countableuncountableA morbid fear of syphilis.

   Part of the answer lies in the wave of “syphilophobia” that engulfed the country during the 1930s and 1940s.

   2011, Vanessa H. May, Unprotected Labor, →ISBN

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   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 190

   Similarly, testing groups that are already socially marginal can further exacerbate syphilophobia as well as the existing prejudices against these groups.

   1995, Suzanne Poirier, Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-40, →ISBN