Cordelia is here with some sex education about a very unusual fetish.
Acrotomophilia is used to describe someone who has a sexual attraction to someone who is disabled due to an amputation. Broken down, Acrotomophilia in Greek means to love extremity/to cut. Akron (Extremity), Tomein (to cut), and philein (to love).
Amelotatism is another word that has been used as a label for this fetish as well. There is a counterpart to Acrotomophilia and that is Apotemnophilia, the sexual arousal from being an amputee.
In the past…
Acrotomophilia was just the sexual attractional/arousal to stumps. Today, it is seen as the sexual attraction/arousal not just to an amputee’s stumps but to paralysis, spasticity (a muscle disorder), and crutches/wheelchairs/artificial limbs as well. Statistics show that the highest percentage of acrotomophiles are male. It’s not unheard of for females to have this fetish but the majority are in fact, male.
A lot of the time, Acrotomophiles will find others who share the same interests in their fetish on online sites. Most have a very hard time with talking about their interest in this fetish. Because acrotomophilies live in such fear of judgmental/rejection, not much is known about this fetish and a lot of the time, they remain pretty secretive about their sexual preferences.
Although the exact sexual activities with this fetish vary…
The most common thing about this fetish’s fantasies are mostly masturba-tory. Some acrotomophiles are interested in a person’s amputated limb and focus solely on the disability. Others like to role-play have a partner with an amputation and some seek partners that are already amputees. According to a scholarly study, for some of these couples with one partner who is an amputee, the partner with the amputated limb usually doesn’t care to take part in the sexual arousal to the amputated limb. They don’t really care for the attention being on the limb and the limb alone. As I mentioned above, Apotemnophilia is the counterpart of Acrotompophilia.
It’s usually classified under body integrity identity disorder because the person does not feel whole the way they are. That would be accomplished by actually having the limb removed. Apotemnophiles actually wish to be an amputee themselves and while it’s still pretty taboo and a lot of medical professionals are typically against it, some people will actually have their limbs amputated. However, most surgeons will not perform elective surgeries like this.
For those that do not or can not have the limb removed, will often roleplay out the fantasy to satisfy the sexual fantasy. For some, this fetish is so severe they will actually attempt to self-amputate (Don’t EVER do this.) While there isn’t much information out there about this fetish, it still very much exists!
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