I was trying to figure out what I should write on this blog post. The blog assignment was not something that made me immediately excited to write. So I figured to get started I could use Google as a tool so I typed in some words that I had read about and we have talked about in class. Or at least I thought I new how to type the words, apparently I did not. I wanted to type in the word Apotemnophilia, but I couldn’t remember how to spell it so I tried to just type in the letters I remembered were in the word. So after doing this for a while I still hadn’t found the word I was looking for after trying all kinds of weird words with the letter A and philia in the end, then the word Entomophilia came up and I thought that maybe this is the right word, even though I was pretty sure that the word started with the letter A.
As I clicked on the Google site where it said Entomophilia I quickly found out that this was not the word I was looking for. It was an interesting site though; it was a site about what Entomophilia is and if you have it you can check for symptoms. Entomophilia: Entomophilia refers to sexual urges, preferences or fantasies involving insects.
more at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/e/entomophilia/intro.htm?ktrack=kcplink
So I guess my question is can we place this under a disease? That would be a good debate. Finding out if the people that feel they have the sexual urges and fantasies about insects have a disease or is just weird. When can you say it is a disease or not, where are the lines? I think its funny that when I searched for a word on something I think is really weird and I look at it as a disease, I find another weird word with a whole different meaning behind it. In the end disease or not we live in a strange world were people have all kinds of weird feelings about thing. What’s next?
Hmm. Gross is the first word that comes to mind! Do we consider insects animals? Should they be given rights- like the right not to be used by a human sexually? Interesting issue!
ReplyDeletePhilias abound. As do phobias. For our work, we might look at how the divisions and definitions work--that and the basic question of how we will finally define what's really a 'psychiatric disorder'--'cause I think there are some, and they cause real pain.
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