The Sunday Times: The rise of tokophobia: Psychiatrists are reporting an increasing number of women, especially white middle class intelligent women, with a profound and sometimes disabling dread of childbirth. Some are so afraid of conceiving that they use several methods of contraception. “In some cases the women will not

even contemplate having sex for fear of falling

pregnant. And some who do become pregnant

will request a termination, or even try to induce

a miscarriage themselves…