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Hmm. So I thought that after my Human Sex lecture on Thursday, I'd scraped the bottom of the "weird psychological disorders" barrel. But then I heard about Caligynephobia. Apparently, this disorder is the reason that the hottest women in bars almost never get hit on (really? I think this depends on how much alcohol has been served) and also the reason that beautiful German women (Heidi Klum) invariably end up married to foreigners (Seal.)

The symptoms: "breathlessness, dizziness, dry mouth, excessive sweating, nausea, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack" in the presence of attractive women.

Urban Dictionary has a slightly different term for the same condition.

The causes vary, of course. For borderline sufferers, they arise from the fact that "a beautiful woman undermines the illusion that one is leading a happy life" but for others, the roots run into the murky past, when one had an experience that "linked beautiful women and emotional trauma."

At the risk of sounding like an asshole: doesn't extreme attraction sometimes feel like an emotional trauma? I'm sure for some people this is a legitimate disorder, but do you notice there's no accompanying "Adonisophobia" or whatever you might call it?

I think it's pretty normal to be uncomfortable - and in some people's cases, catastrophically physically uncomfortable - around people you're attracted to. The solution, of course, is to hit on them constantly until you're immune.

Or at least, that's what I imagine the solution would be. The other solution is to date unattractive women until one day you catch sight of a gorgeous girl on the street and your whole life falls apart at the seams.

And I suppose this goes for both sexes.