It is a serious condition that has only really been "discovered" since 2000. Many women suffer this psychological disorder which has affected a number of relationships throughout the world.
It comes in two extremities:
Primary Tokophobia is deep-seated fear of childbirth probably passed on from someone at an early age.
Secondary Tokophobia can be due to a traumatic childbirth or a sufferer of postpartum depression.
To further this, here's a few anonymous quotes from people who suffer from this:
"The truth is that the very thought of having something almost alien-like growing inside me is disgusting."or
"It's much more than an anxiety - I am actually physically repulsed by pregnancy and childbirth."
However, even though this is a growing problem in women, it is also apparent in men yet, with different results. As earlier mentioned, I was researching and pondered whether it affected men as well and it does. Even though I found a few credible examples there was one guy who was too good to be true. The source of his condition was because he believed he had watched The Nanny too much and had since developed an almost irrational fear because of it.
Using his logic, it's like saying a man had watched the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Junior where he becomes pregnant and had thus concluded that something similar was to be happen to him (consequently though, I'm talking about this for my course).
The lengths people take to convey their idiocy to the world really does flabbergast me at times.
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