gonophobia

English

Etymology

gonorrhoea +‎ -phobia

Noun

gonophobia (countable and uncountable, plural gonophobias)

1. An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
   • 1899, Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal - Volume 2, page 50:

     This, in my opinion, was a true case of gonophobia, fostered and encouraged by a druggist for financial reasons.

   • 1932, Gregorio Marañón, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions, page 190:

     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,...

   • 1961, Ralph Campbell Lindsay Batchelor, Marjorie Murrell, A short manual of venereal diseases and treponematosis, page 223:

     Not uncommonly the constantly recurring vaginal discharge, or the non-gonococcal urethritis in the male has led to the development of a gonophobia.

   • 1980, The Caducean, page 151:

     Symptomatology had first been noted during an Ob-Gyn rotation, when flushing, blushing, gonophobia, and sympathetic labor pains and hot flashes occurred.