What causes aphenphosmphobia?

Answer 1

Physical or sexual abuse, inaffectionnate parents or any other negative experience that involved touching or being touched could cause this phobia.

Answer 2

Some people are just born with phobias. Some are hereditary.

Phobias can also develop from life experience - with philematophobia, people may have been very nervous about kissing, particularly as a teenager, and had this tension build up and develop into a phobia. If the person had had an upsetting experience that involved kissing (like being bullied for not having kissed one, or feeling left out of their group as the only one who hadn't been kissed) may also make the person develop an unhealthy aversion to kissing.

Answer 3

denying a moment of feelings or if one was at a young age and was to come upon something that they feared deep down it would most likely come to the surface in a later date because of either denial or bad experiences.