Erotophobia

A bachelor is an unmarried but marriageable man; some restrict the usage to men who have never been married. The female equivalent term is spinster. In literature during the Victorian era, the term was sometimes used as a euphemism for a homosexual man (particularly in the phrase "confirmed bachelor"). Bachelor - Etymology and historical meanings. The word is from from Old French bacheler "knight bachelor," a young squire in training, ultimately from Latin baccalarius, a vassal fa ...

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According to Gilmartin, people of all ages, all sexual orientations, and both genders can be love-shy. However, in Gilmartin's opinion, love-shyness is especially a problem for heterosexual men. (Note, however, that Gilmartin's study included only heterosexual men and not heterosexual women or homosexual or bisexual men or women.) Because of gender roles in Western society, it may be possible for women and homosexual men to become involved in intimate relationships without needing to take any initiative. Shy women are just as likely as non-s ...

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Love-shyness, Love-shyness - Results of Gilmartin's research, Love-shyness - Love-shyness and mental disorders, Love-shyness - Bibliography

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Bachelors, in the sense of unmarried men, have in many countries been subjected to penal laws. At Sparta, citizens who remained unmarried after a certain age suffered various penalties. They were not allowed to witness the gymnastic exercises of the maidens; and during winter they were compelled to march naked round the market-place, singing a song composed against themselves and expressing the justice of their punishment. The usual respect ...

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Bachelor, Bachelor - Etymology and historical meanings, Bachelor - Penal laws and customs

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The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (of Greek origin) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g., agoraphobia) and in biology to descibe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g., acidophobia). In common usage they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject. Many people apply the suffix "-phobia" inappropriately to mild or irrational fears with no serious substance; however, earl ...

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• -phobia - Zoophobias
• -phobia - Other phobias
• -phobia - A-G
• -phobia - H-O
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Love-shyness is not recognized as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. It does share some characteristics with commonly recognized mental disorders, however. Like people who are afflicted with an avoidant personality disorder, love-shy people feel uncomfortable in many informal social situations, and typically avoid opportunities for social contact. Their impairment of functioning in social interactions bears some similarities to the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome. For example, like people who have Asperger's syndrome, ...

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Love-shyness, Love-shyness - Results of Gilmartin's research, Love-shyness - Love-shyness and mental disorders, Love-shyness - Bibliography

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A large number of "-phobia" lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Some regard any attempt to create a list of phobias as an irrational endeavor because, theoretically, a person could become conditioned to have a fear of anything. Also, a significant number of unscrupulous psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text (see an example below) to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by ...

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-phobia, -phobia - Phobia lists, -phobia - Standard -phobia description template, -phobia - Well-documented phobias, -phobia - Ethnic/national phobias, -phobia - Joke phobias, -phobia - Zoophobias, -phobia - Other phobias, -phobia - A-G, -phobia - H-O, -phobia - P-Z

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-phobia, -phobia - Phobia lists, -phobia - Standard -phobia description template, -phobia - Well-documented phobias, -phobia - Ethnic/national phobias, -phobia - Joke phobias, -phobia - Zoophobias, -phobia - Other phobias, -phobia - A-G, -phobia - H-O, -phobia - P-Z

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