Monday, February 7, 2011

Apotemnophilia turns out to be Entomophilia?

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?

2 comments:

  1. 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!

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  2. Philias 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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