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genophobe en · NOUN

Etymology

From geno- + -phobe.

Meanings

  1. A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
    • Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores. THEN people get outraged. And say fuck off. 1996 July 16, Gary Goodman, "Re: Riefenstahl film on PBS", alt.censorship, Usenet
    • I do think that genophobes like "Anna", and misanthropes like "Zee" are in the minority, zealots who decry any form of sexual expression that is not behind a locked door with the lights out and the covers pulled all the way up. 2011 January 26, Nudiarist, “Re: Dan Ziegler finally professing what Peter Riden has long been preaching/stating”, rec.nude, Usenet
    • Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic. 1986, David Grambs, Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe Life’s Indescribable People, Workman Publishing Company, unmarked page

Forms

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Relateds

puritan · erotophobe · genophobia · celibacist · antisexualist · prude