Get past your squeamishness, though, and you begin to see the beauty in the images.

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Even in these sexually candid times, there's still a residual squeamishness where sexagenarian sexuality is concerned.

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Professor Paul Salkovskis, a leading clinical psychologist, said part of the problem was society's squeamishness about going to the toilet.

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But it seems that Hollywood retains a certain squeamishness about antitrust matters.

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Despite our squeamishness about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of carloads of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between our two cultures.

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At the town's Color de Hormiga (Colour of Ants) restaurant, I put squeamishness to one side and ordered their signature dish: filet mignon in an ant salsa.

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But securing permits for this kind of system, installing monitoring equipment to make sure the water is always perfectly clean, and getting over public squeamishness isn't worth it.

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The reason for their squeamishness on the topic?

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Genes are being added only one at a time, rather than wholesale, and though such genes are usually from other species (there has been a lot of squeamishness about putting anti-freeze genes from fish into plants, for example), the genes of different creatures vary less than those creatures' outward forms might indicate.

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