For example, some folks have reported fantasizing about or performing a sex act that triggered feelings of disgust while simultaneously turning them on. To some, this might sound paradoxical.

There's an idea in psychology that all emotions, from fear to disgust, were evolutionarily advantageous traits. But is the ick really serving us now? One theory posits that disgust evolved to ...

Halloween is a time to embrace all things disgusting, from bloody slasher films to haunted houses full of fake guts and gore. But the attraction to stuff that grosses us out goes beyond this ...

(Read why humans are hardwired to feel disgust.) Cécile Sarabian, a cognitive ecologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, goes a step further: She suggests that the ...

"What we typically do with disgust is we push it away," he said. But with demand for protein rising, he says we need to push back on attitudes that cast insects as disgusting. "We can't do that ...

Scientists claim to have found evidence that the emotion of disgust evolved to protect us from the risk of disease. People found images of things that pose a disease risk consistently more disgusting ...