Coprophobia

Coprophobia is fear of or aversion to feces or defecation[1]

Unlike coprophilia or coprophagy, coprophobia appears to be unknown in the animal world, with the exception of humans. In fact, the attitude to feces and defecation has become a cultural taboo.[2]

References

  1. Robert Jean Campbell (2009). Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary. Oxford University Press. pp. 375–. ISBN 978-0-19-534159-1.
  2. D.L. Wingate, "Everything you wanted to know about constipation and incontinence but were afraid to ask." In: Constipation and Anorectal Insufficiency (FALK Symposium. 1995), 1997, ISBN 0792387279, p.4
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