Phobias for fun and profit

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Don’t let phobias scare you off.  In just a few minutes I was able to find good use for quite a few. Look, I found six great excuses to get out of dating someone you don’t like.

1. Gynophobia– fear of women.
2. Androphobia– fear of men.
3. Pogonophobia-fear of beards.
4. Halitophobia – fear of bad breath.
5. Osmophobia – fear of bad odors.
6. Ithypallophobia is having, seeing or thinking about an erection.

I wonder if you can claim disability for phobias because I found five to get out of working. Hey, let’s also add the first five dating phobias and I suppose number six can’t be totally ruled out either. So now you have eleven for work!

1. Ergophobia – fear of work.
2. Papyrophobia – fear of paper. Remember not to use this one if they’ve gone green…
3. Telephone phobia– fear of making or taking telephone calls.
4. Cyberphobia– fear of computers and of learning new technologies.
5. Epistemophopia – fear of knowledge.

Here are some more that I just liked.  Pass them out or use as needed.

1. Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
2. Emetophobia – fear of vomiting (Yikes! Imagine if you had both phobias and swallowed your vomit!)
3. Chronophobia– fear of time and time moving forward.
4. Omphalophobia – fear of navels. (I am assuming this is not the orange but the belly button.)
5. Coulrophobia– fear of clowns.
6. Oneirogmophobia – is fear of wet dreams.
7. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
8. Didaskaleinophobia- fear of school.
9. Genuphobia –fear of knees.
10. Friggatriskaidekaphobia– fear of Friday the 13^th. No worries, it will occur only once this year in June.

Look at the awesome name of the Friday the 13th phobia.  Whew! I guess I don’t have aSesquipedalophobia.

Terri Underwood

Terri Underwood has always written women’s fiction because she finds it so much fun. Love, sex and relationships all have their ups and downs but without the downs, there would be no ups. She likes to look for the good moments in life and she learned that from her huge loving family who get together often for some of the most hilarious times. Terri is a professional who enjoys hiking, fishing and even camping. She’s a California girl who lived in Arizona for six years before running back to California. She didn’t come away empty-handed though, she learned to look at the sky in Arizona. The billions and billions of stars against a deep black sky, the clouds, beautiful sunsets and thunderstorms, isn’t that what romance is all about?