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  • This little french bulldog is suffering from genuphobia (fear of knees); or perhaps it is sinistrophobia (fear of objects at the left side of the body) that is the problem.

    Blatant Leg Avoid Blackie Lagoon 2007

  • This little french bulldog is suffering from genuphobia (fear of knees); or perhaps it is sinistrophobia (fear of objects at the left side of the body) that is the problem.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Blackie Lagoon 2007

  • All great news for women with a mild form of 'genuphobia', since trousers have emerged as the heroes of the new-modern wardrobe.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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  • Genuphobia (from Latin word genu meaning "knee") is the fear of one's own knees or someone else's knees or the act of kneeling.

    The phobia could be the result of a negative experience in a person’s life that was associated with knees. The discomfort at the sight of one's knees could be the result of the person’s parents or themselves wearing exclusively clothing that covered the knees growing up, therefore making the person unfamiliar with the sight of them. It could be the result of a traumatic injury that left a scar on the individual’s knee or on someone that they know.

    Some people fear kneeling because it is a form of submission. Symptoms include but are not limited to becoming sick to the stomach, excessive sweating, dry mouth, and anxiety when presented with a situation including knees or kneeling. Sufferers fear the uncomfortable feeling they experience at the sight of knees or they fear the recollection of the injury and the pain associated with it.

    May 13, 2017