Koro

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What Wikipedia says

Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Koro (disease)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia