It is perfectly natural for a healthy person to experience a feeling of fear. Its manifestations are considered both normal and natural. Some fears are quite tolerable and do not pose a threat to the psyche. Some, especially those whose action goes against the healthy needs of the body, can significantly harm. It is to these types of fears that genophobia belongs – the fear of sexual contacts in all their manifestations.
Signs and symptoms
Contrary to a fairly common belief, the fear of intimate life is not the idea of Mother Nature. This inexplicable phobia is still not able to thoroughly study this irrational and absolutely groundless fear. And despite the fact that this phobia is attributed to almost 15 percent of the world's population.
It is worth noting that we are talking only about those people who overcame their own shyness and turned to sexologists and psychologists for help. So, none of these specialists has yet been able to explain the causes of the disease and, moreover, have not been able to find a way to cure. So why are people haunted by this obsessive fear and is it possible to find control over it.
A peculiar phenomenon of modernity
Genophobia in itself is an extraordinary phenomenon, since in fact, in itself, it contradicts human nature. Doctors combine in this term all abnormal manifestations associated with a person's complete lack of sexual attraction to persons of the opposite sex. In most cases, an uncontrolled and hypertrophied fear of the first sexual experience is inherent in young and innocent girls who are afraid of losing their innocence. But, the lack of experience in intimate life does not mean that those who have already dealt with adult fun are not affected by such a phobia.
Panic fear of sexual contact and obsessive fears are mainly associated not only with sexual intercourse itself. act, but also with all the circumstances that accompany it:
- Conversations on erotic topics;
- Intimate TV shows;
- Movies with scenes of intimacy.
A terrifying panic fear seizes people with such a phobia as soon as they begin to admit the mere thought that the relationship with the interlocutor can have a “bed continuation”. Genophobia is also surprising in that a sick person is by no means devoid of the manifestation of feelings towards members of the opposite sex. That's just spreading it all only on the ethereal level. At the slightest hint of physical intimacy, again, a panic attack begins. It is he who does not allow people to live a simple human life, filled not only with romance, but also with intimate pleasure.
No normal relationships
In no case should this phobia be taken as something harmless. On the contrary, significantly complicating a person's life, in most cases it can be accompanied by such terrifying “companions” as:
- Lack of meaning in life;
- Thoughts of suicide.
Thus, genophobia can make life incredibly difficult and deprive it of all possible charms. The complete exclusion of the possibility of a sexual life, accordingly, deprives one of the hopes for the appearance of one's own and legitimate heirs, promising a boring and lonely old age.
Changes in the subconsciousness
The worst thing is that genophobia does not apply to diseases of this kind that can be self-treated. Nothing can be achieved here by sheer force of will. Fear of sexual contact is firmly rooted in the subconscious, and a person can be returned to normal life only with the help of qualified consultations of professional psychologists and sexologists.
Causes
The only thing that scientists have definitely been able to prove to date is that genophobia definitely does not apply to congenital diseases. In the same way, the fear of sex in no way depends on the temperament of the individual.
Many scientists tend to believe that only psychological and social factors can be considered the cause of the formation of genophobia.
To understand the influence of society, we can consider the example of raising a girl by an authoritarian and domineering and overly caring mother or grandmother. They give the girls mythical legends that apart from pain and betrayal, nothing is possible from sex. On the one hand, the parent is trying to protect the girl from too early sexual contact. On the other hand, an unfriendly attitude towards intimacy, over time, can lead to the emergence of a pathological fear of sex itself.
Also, the appearance of fear of sex is largely due to the lack of reliable knowledge about sexual life. Misinformation makes a girl believe that intimate life causes pain, can cause health problems and many other troubles, given unwanted pregnancy.
So, to all those Those who, to one degree or another, notice signs of genophobia in themselves, should not put off going to specialists. Modern medicine is quite capable of helping the sick and is already showing obvious results.
< p>Veronika Stepanova. Sexual fears. Confidence in sex.
