On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:09:04 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:


"C J Campbell" wrote in message

I thought the same. Granted, I thought blaming it all on Hughes' mother
was
a little trite

Maybe. Like I said in a previous post, I was raised by a fellow who became
violently ill around dogs based on a brief experience he had in a Nazi
concentration camp (he was an American POW...how he ended up at KZ
Mauthausen is not particularly relevant.)

In any case, I grew up thinking that the act of a dog licking somebody's
face was abhorrent and nausea and disgust at the very sight of such a thing
normal. To this day, the smell of a dog still disgusts me, and I didn't
think it abnormal at all until my wife told me so.


I was raised on a farm, I raised Labs for year and I still consider a
sloppy kiss from a dog as disgusting, but I'm not phobic about it.

Ever have a cat kiss you on the end of the nose just after cleaning
its sent glandsLOL That;s a kiss that will keep on giving, and
giving, and giving...

For one thing, how did a guy who supposedly had such a fear of germs ever
have sex?

Rationalization? Immaculate conception?

OCD is irrational. That was the answer I was given when I asked how a guy
afraid of something a trivial as a germ straps himself into an experimental
airplane people say won't fly, and then breaks records with it. A guy like
that shouldn't be afraid of anything.

Every one fears something, but most aren't phobic about it.
Phobias are irrational. Being afraid of something usually has a
reason behind it.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

-c