Gynophobia Fear of women

In many cases, rooted in social phobia or social anxiety disorder, Gynophobia Fear of women

Gynophobia Fear of women
In addition to Gynophobia, there is the term caligynephobia, meaning the fear of beautiful women. Also, used expression venustraphobia, for the latter one. And in many cases, rooted in social phobia or social anxiety disorder.
Noteworthy, the symptoms of Gynophobia typically include extreme anxiety, dread and anything associated with panic. And the last, in particular, includes shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, excessive sweating, and nausea. Also, dry mouth, nausea, inability to articulate words or sentences, and shaking.

Rooted in social phobia or social anxiety disorder, fear of women,
or Gynophobia

According to scientists, Gynophobia is a driving force toward homosexuality. For example, Havelock Ellis wrote about it in his 1896 Studies in “the Psychology of Sex”. “It is, perhaps, not difficult to account for the horror… Much stronger than that normally felt toward a person of the same sex. With which the invert often regards the sexual organs of persons of the opposite sex…
Meanwhile, among the reasons of Gynophobia, the scientist mentions the absence of parallel excitement accompanied in the beholder by the sense of unfamiliarity as in childhood, or by a neurotic hypersensitiveness. In fact, the conditions present for the production of intense horror feminae or horror masculis, as the case may be.
However, Otto Rank argues in his interesting study, “Die Nacktheit in Sage und Dichtung”. “This horror of the sexual organs of the opposite sex, to some extent felt even by normal people, is embodied in the Melusine type of legend.”

And some authors consider the myths about Amazons, the medieval witch-hunts to be manifestations of gynophobia in human culture.