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Scientology and its perspectives on sexual orientation are based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. His statements about homosexuality have led critics to assert that Scientology promotes homophobia, though these allegations are disputed by some Scientologists.
In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his "science of the mind," Dianetics. He classified homosexuality as an illness or sexual perversion, citing contemporary psychiatric and psychological textbooks to support his view:
The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II [i.e. sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically...he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society...[1]
Hubbard further defined perversion in his 1951 book Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior, where he introduced the concept of the "tone scale", a means of classifying individuals and human behavior on a chart running from +40 (the most beneficial) to -40 (the least beneficial). Sexual perversion, a category in which he included homosexuality, was termed "covert hostility" and given a score of 1.1, "the level of the pervert, the hypocrite, the turncoat, ...the subversive." He considered such people to be "skulking coward[s] who yet contain enough perfidious energy to strike back, but not enough courage ever to give warning."[2]
He characterized "promiscuity, perversion, sadism, and irregular practices" as well as "free love, easy marriage and quick divorce" as being undesirable activities, "since it is non-survival not to have a well ordered system for the creation and upbringing of children, by families." Such "sexual perverts" engaged in "irregular practices which do anything but tend toward the creation of children" and "efforts [which] tend not towards enjoyment but toward the pollution and derangement of sex itself so as to make it as repulsive as possible to others and so to inhibit procreation."[3]
Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears likewise classified homosexuality as "about 1.1 (covert hostility) on the tone scale", along with "general promiscuity". He set out what he saw as the cause of homosexuality: a mental "aberration", with the result that "an individual aberrated enough about sex will do strange things to be a cause or an effect. He will substitute punishment for sex. He will pervert others. Homosexuality comes from this manifestation and from the manifestation of life continuation for others." The "aberration" was caused by a child trying to "continue the life" of a dominant parent of the opposite sex.[4]
Hubbard's views on homosexuality were further explained in a 1972 book by Scientologist Ruth Minshull, How To Choose Your People, which was published through the Church of Scientology, copyrighted to Hubbard, and given "issue authority" by the Scientology hierarchy. Scientology churches sold the book alongside the works of Hubbard until 1983.[5] Minshull described the "gentle-mannered homosexual" as a classic example of the "subversive" 1.1 personality, commenting that they "may be fearful, sympathetic, propitiative, griefy or apathetic. Occasionally they manage an ineffectual tantrum." Minshull claimed they were social misfits:
Homosexuals don't practice love; 1.1s can't. Their relationships consist of: 1) brief, sordid and impersonal meetings or 2) longer arrangements punctuated by dramatic tirades, discords, jealousies and frequent infidelity. It could hardly be otherwise since the tone is made up of suspicion and hate, producing a darling sweetness interspersed with petty peevishness. Their "love" turns to deep contempt eventually.[6]
Homosexuals had no redeeming "social value," in Minshull's view. She cautioned that "homosexuals should not be abused or ridiculed. But a society bent on survival must recognize any aberration as such and seek to raise people out of the low emotion that produces it."
Jon Atack notes that L. Ron Hubbard's son Quentin Hubbard was homosexual.[7] According to Atack, L. Ron Hubbard had repeatedly announced that his son Quentin would succeed him after his death, but Quentin died of an apparent suicide in 1976.[7]
There is some evidence that Hubbard's Dianetics movement sought to use Dianetics to "cure" homosexuality. In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of Elizabeth, NJ published Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, a booklet providing the results of psychometric tests conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy. It presents case histories and a number of X-ray plates to support claims that Dianetics had cured "aberrations" including bipolar disorder, asthma, arthritis, colitis, and "overt homosexuality," and that after Dianetic processing, test subjects experienced significantly increased scores on a standardized IQ test.[8]
In Hubbard's 1951 book Handbook for Preclears, he set out instructions for Dianeticists to "cure" homosexuality. After claiming that the cause of homosexuality was a fixation on a dominant parent of the opposite sex, he advised, "Break this life continuum concept by running sympathy and grief for the dominant parent and then run off the desires to be an effect and their failures and the homosexual is rehabilitated."[4]
Hubbard urged society to tackle the issue of "sexual perversion" (including homosexuality), calling it "of vital importance, if one wishes to stop immorality, and the abuse of children." In Science of Survival, he called for drastic action to be taken against sexual perverts, whom he rated as "1.1 individuals":
Such people should be taken from the society as rapidly as possible and uniformly institutionalized; for here is the level of the contagion of immorality, and the destruction of ethics; here is the fodder which secret police organizations use for their filthy operations. One of the most effective measures of security that a nation threatened by war could take would be rounding up and placing in a cantonment, away from society, any 1.1 individual who might be connected with government, the military, or essential industry; since here are people who, regardless of any record of their family's loyalty, are potential traitors, the very mode of operation of their insanity being betrayal. In this level is the slime of society, the sex criminals, the political subversives, the people whose apparently rational activities are yet but the devious writhings of secret hate.[2]
In later years, Hubbard sought to distance himself from efforts to regulate the sexual affairs of lay Scientologists. In a 1967 policy letter, he declared: "It has never been any part of my plans to regulate or to attempt to regulate the private lives of individuals. Whenever this has occurred, it has not resulted in any improved condition...Therefore all former rules, regulations and polices relating to the sexual activities of Scientologists are cancelled."[9] Members of the Sea Org remained under strict rules according to a 1978 order.[10]
Although Hubbard's views on homosexuality remain unamended in modern editions of Scientology books, gay Scientologists have argued that Hubbard and the Church have set aside any anti-homosexual views expressed in the past. In 2002 the American Church of Scientology published a press release on its website quoting gay activist Keith Relkin as saying, "Over the years I have worked with the Church of Scientology for greater inclusion of gay people like me, and today represents a milestone in that progress."[11] Paul Haggis, a Hollywood screenwriter and director, publicly left Scientology in October 2009, claiming that the San Diego branch of the Church of Scientology gave its support to California Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-sex marriage. Haggis wrote to Tommy Davis, the Church's spokesman, and requested that he denounce their support for Prop 8. However, the Church disputes this, with Davis stating, "Church of Scientology San Diego had been put on a list of churches that supported Proposition 8 out in California. It was incorrectly included and named when it should have never been on the list to begin with." Davis also stated that the inclusion of the San Diego branch on the list supporting Prop. 8 was the work of a single employee, who was removed from his post and the Church's name taken off the list.[12][13][14][15]
A 2004 article in the St. Petersburg Times reported that the Church defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman.[16]
Melissa M. Wilcox, notes in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America that while present-day detractors of Scientology accuse it of homophobia, government suspicion in the early days of Scientology apparently included accusations of homosexuality.[17] In response to a query by her about the Church's current position, the Church of Scientology in 2005 stated:
The Church of Scientology does not dictate sexual preferences. Scientology is a practical method of improving conditions in life and works to increase a person's abilities, give higher IQ and better reaction time, greater ability to solve his problems in life – things of this nature."[17]
An official Scientology website states, "The second dynamic is the urge toward existence as a future generation. It has two compartments: sex; and the family unit, including the rearing of children. A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. So one can be fairly sure that he who destroys marriage destroys the civilization."[18]
Note: HCOB refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins", HCOPL refers to "Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters", and SHSBC refers to "Saint Hill Special Briefing Courses". All have been made publicly available by the Church of Scientology in the past, both as individual documents or in bound volumes.
The Sea Org is an elite group and therefore should have very high and optimum ethical standards.
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A-
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious
substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to
airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of
pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded,
public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild
animals.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia- Fear
of cats.
Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia- Fear of
walking.
Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia- Fear of
scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
Androphobia- Fear of
men.
Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia)
Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia-
Fear of England or English culture, etc.
Angrophobia - Fear of anger
or of becoming angry.
Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a
joint.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Antlophobia- Fear of
floods.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia- Fear
of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched.
(Haphephobia)
Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia- Fear of
persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter
sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia-
Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia-
Fear of men.
Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
Asthenophobia- Fear of
fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder
and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)
Astrophobia- Fear of
stars or celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical
things.
Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia- Fear of
imperfection.
Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia- Fear of
failure.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia- Fear of
gold.
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia-
Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia- Fear of
ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything
that falsly represents a sentient being.
Automysophobia- Fear of
being dirty.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
B-
Bacteriophobia-
Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or
falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being
close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as
frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and
needles. (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the
bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or
Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder
and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
C-
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness,
novelty.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia
or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia- Fear of the
heart.
Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia- Fear of being
ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low
places.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia- Fear of
mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and
lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
Chaetophobia- Fear of
hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.(Frigophobia,
Psychophobia)
Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with
chemicals.
Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia- Fear of
snow.
Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
Chirophobia- Fear of
hands.
Chiroptophobia- Fear of bats.
Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear
of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Chronophobia- Fear of time.
Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
Claustrophobia-
Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of
being locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia- Fear of
stealing.
Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling
downstairs.
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
Clithrophobia or
Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed.
Cnidophobia- Fear of
stings.
Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
Coimetrophobia- Fear of
cemeteries.
Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
Contreltophobia- Fear
of sexual abuse.
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
Consecotaleophobia- Fear of
chopsticks.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia- The
preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
Cremnophobia- Fear of
precipices.
Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia- Fear of
computers or working on a computer.
Cyclophobia- Fear of
bicycles.
Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like
motions.
Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
Cypridophobia or
Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or
venereal disease.
D-
Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of
painful bowels movements.
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner
conversations.
Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia or
Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
Demophobia- Fear of crowds.
(Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
Dentophobia- Fear of
dentists.
Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
Dermatosiophobia
or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going
to school.
Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
Dinophobia- Fear of
dizziness or whirlpools.
Diplophobia- Fear of double vision.
Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking.
Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing
in front of someone.
Disposophobia- Fear of throwing stuff out. Hoarding.
Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a
house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia)
Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of
animals.
Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving
praise.
Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia- Fear
of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
E-
Ecophobia- Fear of home.
Eicophobia- Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of
freedom.
Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia-
Fear of vomiting.
Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
Enochlophobia- Fear
of crowds.
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an
unpardonable sin or of criticism.
Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of
teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia-
Fear of knowledge.
Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
Eremophobia-
Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Ereuthrophobia- Fear of
blushing.
Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2)
Surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia- Fear of work.
Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Euphobia- Fear
of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2)
Blushing. 3) Red.
F-
Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia,
Gatophobia)
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture.
(Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold
things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
G-
Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture.
(Francophobia)
Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia- Fear
of laughter.
Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Genophobia- Fear of
sex.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia
or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
Germanophobia- Fear of
Germany or German culture.
Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
Geumaphobia or
Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public
or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
Gymnophobia- Fear of
nudity.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
H-
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or
holy things.
Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
Haphephobia or
Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia- Fear of being
robbed.
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
Heliophobia-
Fear of the sun.
Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex
scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with
worms.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or
of radical deviation.
Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy,
crawly things.
Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex.
(Sexophobia)
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number
666.
Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hippophobia-
Fear of horses.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long
words.
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia- Fear of
road travel.
Hormephobia- Fear of shock.
Homichlophobia- Fear of
fog.
Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.
Hominophobia- Fear of
men.
Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or
of becoming homosexual.
Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines.
Hydrophobia- Fear of
water or of rabies.
Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass.
Hygrophobia- Fear of
liquids, dampness, or moisture.
Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or
the fear of epilepsy.
Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia- Fear
of height.
I-
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Iophobia- Fear of poison.
Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia- Fear of
termites, insects that eat wood.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing,
thinking about or having an erect penis.
J-
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
K-
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting
down.
Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches.
Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Keraunophobia
or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia,
Astrapophobia)
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or
motion.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Koinoniphobia- Fear of
rooms.
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
Koniophobia- Fear of dust.
(Amathophobia)
Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
Kynophobia- Fear of
rabies.
Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
L-
Laliophobia
or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of
leprosy.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Levophobia- Fear
of things to the left side of the body.
Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud
noises.
Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia- Fear of
childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Logophobia-
Fear of words.
Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
Lutraphobia-
Fear of otters.
Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia- Fear
of rabies or of becoming mad.
M-
Mageirocophobia- Fear of
cooking.
Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Malaxophobia- Fear
of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
Mechanophobia- Fear of
machines.
Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.
Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
Megalophobia- Fear of large
things.
Melissophobia- Fear of bees.
Melanophobia- Fear of the
color black.
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.
Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease.
Menophobia- Fear of
menstruation.
Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up.
Metallophobia- Fear of metal.
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors.
Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol.
Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
Microbiophobia- Fear of
microbes. (Bacillophobia)
Microphobia- Fear of small things.
Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt or
germs.
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
Molysmophobia or
Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination.
Monophobia- Fear of
solitude or being alone.
Monopathophobia- Fear of definite
disease.
Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
Mottephobia- Fear of
moths.
Musophobia or Muriphobia- Fear of mice.
Mycophobia- Fear
or aversion to mushrooms.
Mycrophobia- Fear of small things.
Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
N-
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead
things.
Nelophobia- Fear of glass.
Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new
drugs.
Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
Nephophobia- Fear of
clouds.
Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
Nomatophobia- Fear of
names.
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
Nosophobia or
Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
Nostophobia- Fear of returning
home.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
Nucleomituphobia-
Fear of nuclear weapons.
Nudophobia- Fear of nudity.
Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.
Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded
areas or of forests at night
Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of
night.
O-
Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or
mobs.
Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
Octophobia - Fear of the
figure 8.
Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
Oenophobia-
Fear of wines.
Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings,
house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia)
Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ommetaphobia or
Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes.
Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.
Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing
a certain word or of names.
Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes.
(Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain
medications for patients.
Optophobia- Fear of opening one's
eyes.
Ornithophobia- Fear of birds.
Orthophobia- Fear of
property.
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia- Fear of smells or
odors.
Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish.
Ouranophobia or
Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
P-
Panthophobia- Fear of suffering
and disease.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
Paraphobia- Fear of sexual perversion.
Parasitophobia- Fear of
parasites.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.
Pathophobia- Fear of
disease.
Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.
Parturiphobia- Fear of
childbirth.
Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia- Fear of children.
Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.
Pellagrophobia- Fear of pellagra.
Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty.
Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
Phagophobia-
Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
Phalacrophobia-
Fear of becoming bald.
Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp erect.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine.
Phasmophobia- Fear of
ghosts.
Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia- Fear of kissing.
Philophobia- Fear
of falling in love or being in love.
Philosophobia- Fear of
philosophy.
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
Photoaugliaphobia-
Fear of glaring lights.
Photophobia- Fear of light.
Phonophobia-
Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Phthiriophobia- Fear of lice.
(Pediculophobia)
Phthisiophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Pneumatiphobia-
Fear of spirits.
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of
being smothered.
Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight.
(Obesophobia)
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
Poliosophobia- Fear
of contracting poliomyelitis.
Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal
dislike of politicians.
Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or
of pain.
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
Potamophobia-
Fear of rivers or running water.
Potophobia- Fear of alcohol.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs.
Proctophobia- Fear of rectums.
Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
Psellismophobia- Fear of
stuttering.
Psychophobia- Fear of mind.
Psychrophobia- Fear of
cold.
Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
Pteronophobia- Fear of
being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
Pyrexiophobia- Fear of Fever.
Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
Q-
R-
Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal
diseases.
Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by
a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting
wrinkles.
Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
Russophobia- Fear of
Russians.
S-
Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play.
(Malaxophobia)
Satanophobia- Fear of Satan.
Scabiophobia- Fear
of scabies.
Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.
Scelerophibia-
Fear of bad men, burglars.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of
shadows.
Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms.
Scolionophobia- Fear of
school.
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared
at.
Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
Scotophobia- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
Scriptophobia- Fear of
writing in public.
Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
Selaphobia-
Fear of light flashes.
Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of
long words.
Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
Siderophobia- Fear of stars.
Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the
left or left-handed.
Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese
culture.
Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food or eating.
(Cibophobia)
Snakephobia- Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.
Social Phobia- Fear of being
evaluated negatively in social situations.
Sociophobia- Fear of
society or people in general.
Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.
Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on
others.
Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
Spectrophobia- Fear of
specters or ghosts.
Spermatophobia or Spermophobia- Fear of
germs.
Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
Stasibasiphobia or
Stasiphobia- Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Stenophobia- Fear of
narrow things or places.
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of
hell.
Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
Symbolophobia- Fear of
symbolism.
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
Syngenesophobia-
Fear of relatives.
Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis.
T-
Taeniophobia or
Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of
being buried alive or of cemeteries.
Tapinophobia- Fear of being
contagious.
Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
Technophobia- Fear of
technology.
Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious
ceremony.
Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.
Teratophobia-
Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed
people.
Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
Tetanophobia- Fear of
lockjaw, tetanus.
Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.
Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics.
Thaasophobia- Fear of
sitting.
Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea.
Thanatophobia or
Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying.
Theatrophobia- Fear of
theatres.
Theologicophobia- Fear of theology.
Theophobia- Fear
of gods or religion.
Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
Tocophobia-
Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
Tomophobia- Fear of surgical
operations.
Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.
Topophobia- Fear of
certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
Toxiphobia or
Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently
poisoned.
Traumatophobia- Fear of injury.
Tremophobia- Fear of
trembling.
Trichinophobia- Fear of trichinosis.
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia- Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia,
Hypertrichophobia)
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes.
Trypanophobia- Fear
of injections.
Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
U-
Urophobia- Fear of urine or
urinating.
V-
Venustraphobia- Fear of
beautiful women.
Verbophobia- Fear of words.
Verminophobia- Fear
of germs.
Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
Virginitiphobia- Fear
of rape.
Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
W-
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
X-
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia-
Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
Xyrophobia-Fear of
razors.
Y-
Z-
Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Zoophobia- Fear of animals.
Created:
Monday, July 17, 1995
© 1995-2010 Fredd
Culbertson