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Blogs > spunkycumfun > Sexy TIMES

WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF?  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
3/29/2013 12:44 pm
WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF?


Are you scared of mice? Are you scared of spiders, snakes, sharks, the sea, heights, caves, public speaking, failure, or the dark? Are you scared of anything?

When meeting one of my friends for a drink, he always used to say to me with a certain smile when we parted to walk back home late at night, “Please be careful, I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to you.”

Fear is a rational response to a situation, often provoking a ‘fight or flight’ response. A fear of sharks in certain seas, and taking precautionary measures when swimming, is rational.

A phobia is an irrational fear where the risks of something bad happening are greatly exaggerated, often resulting in behavioural and physiological symptoms being exhibited (eg avoidance, vertigo, panic attacks). A fear of sharks in street puddles, and not going out to shop when it is raining, is irrational.

According to livescience.com, the following are the ten top phobias: dentists (dentophobia); dogs (cynophobia); flying (aviophobia); thunder and lightning (astraphobia); the dark (nyctophobia); heights (acrophobia); people (anthropomorphobia), large spaces (agoraphobia), insects (entomophobia); and snakes (ophidiophobia).

I would have thought that the fear of enclosed spaces, claustrophobia, would have made this list. I am slightly claustrophobic. When I went caving, I did not feel at all good. I’m also not good at flying, but I love spiders. My biggest fear is the fear of dying, not the fear of death, though I don’t think I’m thanatophobic!

There is a phobia of public speaking (glossophobia) a fear of sex (genophobia), and even a phobia of phobias, phobophobia. The list seems endless!

Does anyone suffer from the aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes? I do love a good palindrome!

Do you have any fears or phobias?
If so, how do you deal with them?

rm_nowave78 45M
31 posts
3/29/2013 1:53 pm

 i know what you mean


lok4fun500 M
51906 posts
3/29/2013 8:47 pm

 Heights and water!!
I fly over the ocean!


salard2 75M/70F
56 posts
3/30/2013 3:23 am

 As I pee, sir, I see Pisa!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/10/2013 7:11 am

 That's good, because sometimes I don't know!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/10/2013 7:12 am
    Quoting  :
I like spiders, but we don't have any poisonous ones in Britain. x


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/10/2013 7:17 am
    Quoting lok4fun500:
    Heights and water!!
    I fly over the ocean!
Hopefully you're not scared of flying!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/10/2013 7:18 am
    Quoting salard2:
    As I pee, sir, I see Pisa!
Clearly you do not suffer from aibohphobia!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
4/10/2013 7:19 am
    Quoting  :
I like a good rollercoaster, though the log flume is my favourite fairground ride.


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