Decadent? Never.

First off, slippers, I'd like to apologize. As some of you may or may not have noticed, last week our list was a list of ninja profile pictures. As you may well imagine, that was not as successful a venture as we had hoped. We learned our lesson.

With All Hallow's Eve coming up, we'd like to give you a little taste of our 26 favorite phobias. At the bottom is also a little homework assignment/social experiment


Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells.
Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
Metrophobia- Fear of poetry.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your mom
Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams
Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Ranidaphobia- Fear of frog
Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
Trichophobia- Fear of hair.
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating
Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow
And, of course…
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat

Now comes the challenge. We would like each of our members to post a fear of theirs, either anonymously through a note to either Lisa or Natalia, or on this blog. They will then be re-anonymized and will be posted as next week's Wednesday list.

If it makes everyone feel better, I will post several

Lisa Maher is at least slightly afraid of:

Losing her memory
Getting drunk beyond all recognition
Parasites
Dying alone.
Macbeth.

Your turn....