KORO PANIC

I wonder how this is related to the delusions of obesity that
seem to often underlie anorexia?

"Num mea Thessalico languent devota veneno corpora,
Num misero carmen et herba nocent, sagave poenicea
Defixit nomina cera et medium tenuis in iecur egit acus?"
from OVID: AMORES 3.7.27-30

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/16/81843/6555

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic

"It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories,
it's what you have to unlearn." - Isaac Asimov

More Ovid Amores?
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/lboo/lboo49.htm