Matthew Sweet (2001) Inventing the Victorians: “The joke is essentially unchanged. suggesting that most American readers would find this genuphobia as ridiculous as those in England.”
Andrew Pschirrer (2017 January) Foggy Notions: Memorandum of a Man-in-the-Making, Fulton Books, page 60:
I can almost still feel the joint-crushing physical inability I endured trying to walk from the battleground to the parking lot after a ninety-minute match, crawling along in the mimicking manner of a sixty-five-year-old with severe arthritis. […] In retrospect, genuphobia, the fear of knees, would have compounded my misery. So I am grateful for being blessed with the lack of that.
“I'm afraid of kneecaps,” she said. “Genuphobia. I’m truly sorry to have caused you distress.” “Is that why you went into entomology?” said Kathi. It seemed a silly question to me, but what did I know?
