The term erotophobia can also be used when describing genophobia.

It is measured on a continuous scale, ranging from erotophobia to erotophilia.

Ince believes that sexual silence is driven by erotophobia.

It is also important because erotophobia has been shown to create relationship and marital difficulties in multiple studies, dating back to Kinsey.

Ince explores homophobia, 'the best recognized type of erotophobia'.

A specific type of erotophobia, "genital phobia" motivates this compulsive fig-leafing.

Ince claims that an unconscious learning process imprints genital phobia and all other types of erotophobia.

Such negativity is irrational, driven by erotophobia.'

In this sense erotophobia is descriptive of one's place in a range on a continuum (theory) of sexual feeling or aversion to feeling.

Ince goes on to discuss monogamy, claiming it is too 'rigid', and that negative attitudes toward non-exclusive sexual conduct breeds various types of erotophobia.

Chapter 16 (The Politics of Lust): Ince posits that the ultimate cause of erotophobia is social inequality.

Ince previously authored a non-fiction book, The Politics of Lust, which addresses the impact of antisexual attitudes or erotophobia on a society's political organization.

Research on this personality dimension has shown a correlation between high erotophobia scores and a less consistent use of contraception and a lack of knowledge about human sexuality.

Erotophobia - a term coined by a number of researchers in the late 1970s and early 1980s to describe one pole on a continuum of attitudes and beliefs about sexuality.

Introduction: Ince lays out a definition of 'erotophobia' which he goes on to use throughout the book: a culturally conditioned, secret fear of our own sexuality and that of other people.

Ince also argues that social inequality and politics are inter linked with erotophobia and that overcoming erotophobia is one of the first steps to a truly democratic society.