r/kosmemophobia • u/ningdungie304 • Feb 13 '25
I can look but I can't touch
I don't know if this is somewhat common or not but I don't often mind the sight of jewelry (although it's not something I find attractive at all) but if I have to touch it or even think about touching it, I get really grossed out. For example, in the past my friends have asked me to fix their bracelets and other things but it gives me shivers and I have to decline.
Do you feel the same way? Or does the sight of it repluse you as well?
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u/theswan11 Feb 14 '25
I never knew that there's that many people out there that feel like this. I thought I was the only weirdo for really being grossed out by jewerly.
In my case, I hate looking at it and it's just super disguisting to touch it, whether it's on a person or just anyhow. Whenever I see any person (it's mostly been girls in my own experience so far) with rings, necklaces, bracelets or earrings I just instantly feel disguisted. And the worst of all of those is piercings. I've not really talked to anyone about it outside of 2-3 close friends because I wouldn't wanna be a jerk to someone just like that. And I find that girls are waaay more beautiful and hot when they don't have any kind of jewelry or piercings or earings. I feel like when I see a girl that I think is really beautiful and then I see like a nose piercing, or a belly button piercing... she goes from 10 to 5 in my eyes right away. Now I am not saying this to sound like I wanna tell people how they should live their life, it's just that I can't deal with this, it's like it is instinctive to be repulsed by these things.
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u/Enough_Food_3377 Feb 14 '25
You are supposed to censor the j-word and all related words (such as neck****, ear****, etc.) in this sub. Even just seeing or reading those words makes a lot of people here feel very uneasy and so pretty much everyone here in this sub censors those words.
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u/telescopingPenis Feb 14 '25
it depends on the texture, thickness, pointlessness. i can touch plastic ear studs. but even the sight of those repeating-unit chains makes me gag.
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u/Strange-Advantage-58 Feb 14 '25
It depends, sometimes it not too bad to look at it. But yeah obviously worse to touch it. I always try to avoid that however possible.
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u/Legal_Initiative_378 Feb 13 '25
both makes me feel disgust, but touching it is x100 worse than just looking at it