Genophobe

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse

    "Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic."

Synonyms

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antisexualist

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"Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic."

Etymology

From geno- + -phobe.

Related phrases

sexual intercourse

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