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This is why women are obsessed with stories about women being murdered

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This is why women are obsessed with stories about women being murdered
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Counterphobia is the psychological term for when someone actively seeks out the thing they fear most, perhaps as a way of preserving a sense of power and control.

Could this explain why stories about murdered women are so popular, particularly among women themselves?




According to a recent article in The Guardian, nine out of ten bestselling novels in the UK centre around a woman being murdered. 

This is hardly a new phenomenon. Stories built around dead women are as old as storytelling its

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