When I was a teenager, I suffered—and I do mean suffered—from being very shy, a condition called “venustraphobia.” I didn’t know what it meant, but now I do. It is a fear of beautiful women.  If you are a boy with a touch of acne, this is not a good phobia to have hanging over you. H

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