Talk:Gynophobia

Personal Testimonies
I suffer from Gynophobia and I am not in the least bit homosexual or have any homosexual desires. I think this article should be rewritten,

Well, sorry, but this deals with historical perceptions of the term and its meaning and is not designed to reassure you personally. In any case it does not say that all male with gynophobia are homosexual, only that in the view of sexologists, some are. EnquireWithin (talk) 07:57, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Redirect to misogyny?
Why is androphobia a redirect to misandry when gynophobia is not a redirect to misogyny? JCDenton2052 (talk) 09:24, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Because nobody has written any worthwhile text for an article on androphobia yet, I presume. --VanBurenen (talk) 11:23, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * And now it is an article.--Joshua Issac (talk) 19:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

gynophobia
I've noticed someone categorized this in the "misogyny" category which I do not feel is very appropriate. This article is about the fear disorder. It could be true that some people who are misogynists are gynophobic BUT this is not the case for everyone. People can be afraid of something and not hate it. Therefore I'm removing the category and same goes for the other article on androphobia. Unless someone can come up with some scholarly references that confirm misogyny is an important subject in gynophobia I'll make the edit. --Turn685 (talk) 12:47, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Miller, Vandome, and McBrewster
Sources written by Miller, Vandome, and McBrewster need to be double checked (and possibly deleted) as per VDM Publishing § Wikipedia content duplication. Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 20:44, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

related phobias?
I read that caligynephobia and venustraphobia also mean a person afraid of women. Article Venustraphobia is about an music album, and it has this sentence: The term venustraphobia supposedly means the fear of beautiful women. Why "supposedly", that is not clarified. 82.141.95.20 (talk) 00:42, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Added a good source on caligynephobia Bashfan34 (talk) 19:59, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Need pronunciation
How is this word pronounced?? Please add its phonetic script. --Arun Sunil Kollam (talk) 02:10, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The pronunciation is now added. There seems to be unproductive personal vendettas on this page, hence the stagnation. But that should be the correct IPA one John locke5 (talk) 14:43, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

From what I can gather
Most readily available writing, which is explicitly and exclusively on the topic of gynophobia, is about how ancient societies projected fear of women into their mythologies. There are other references to gynophobia all throughout academia and books, but this article and others elsewhere on the net, should be considered works-in-progress to incorporate all these things together. This article as it is now, is of course insufficient. Child-child Cooties should probably be given it's own section here, as heterophobia, including gynophobia is near-universal before ages 16-17 or so according to at least one study on the neuropsychology of cooties. Bashfan34 (talk) 17:43, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Survey of Heterosexual Interactions diagnostic criteria for heterophobia (including gynophobia)
Also, there is an academic/medical diagnostic criteria for gynophobia, but it is mostly discussed in academic papers that are simply not available on the internet. It's called the Survey of Heterosexual Interactions, by Craig Twentyman and Richard McFall, created in the 1970s. It's a 20 question diagnostic criteria for heterosexual heterophobia, which of course includes gynophobia. Unfortunately, most readily available references to the survey do not expound on it much. But should any source tie it in heavily to gynophobia explicitly, would be a very worthy addition to this article. I mean, it's a diagnostic criteria for gynophobia haha. Bashfan34 (talk)

Changed lede to morbid fear or women, over abnormal
As that's what the first source provided before I came here says. It says 'morbid', not 'abnormal'. While morbid may be abnormal sometimes, morbid fear is not always abnormal according to sources! Bashfan34 (talk) 23:28, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Irrational in lede sentence
There seems to be a desire to insert irrational in the lede sentence. It's possible to infer that the Hindi examples are irrational, but that is not explicitly stated. Also, in the competing hypotheses section, only the Freud section on castration theory explicitly labels gynophobia as irrational. However, another listed hypothesis seems to do the opposite and says it can form due to fear of reproducing in areas that have severe and systemic limitations in basic resources required to expand the population. That, while a possibly misguided or overblown fear, it has more step-by-step logic behind it than Freud's musings imho. If it is re-inserted into the lede, please say why. It is also not in the citation in the lede, but per LEADCITE was talking about the body as well. 72.86.42.248 (talk) 10:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * There are sources for irrational as part of definition, especially in books, but they aren't great sources. With enough digging there might be a proper source. John locke5 (talk) 14:40, 2 April 2024 (UTC)