Acrotomophilia

Acrotomophiles may be attracted to amputees because they like the way they look or they may view the amputee's stump as a phallic object which can be used for sexual pleasure.{{cite journal |last1=Bruno |first1=Richard L. |title=Devotees, Pretenders and Wannabes: Two Cases of Factitious Disability Disorder |journal=Sexuality and Disability |date=1 December 1997 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=243–260 |doi=10.1023/A:1024769330761 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024769330761 |access-date=10 May 2023 |language=en |issn=1573-6717}} Acrotomophiles may enjoy the idea of dominating the amputee during couples play and they may also become aroused with the thought of having to take care of an amputee.

In a survey of acrotomophiles, leg amputations were preferred over arm amputations, amputations of a single limb over double amputations, and amputations that left a stump over amputations that left no stump.Dixon, D. (1983). An erotic attraction to amputees. Sexuality and Disability, 6, 3–19. {{doi|10.1007/BF01119844}} According to Per Solvang (2007), "Devotees adhere to standard conceptions of attractiveness in all other matters outside of amputations."Solvang, P. (2007). The amputee body desired: Beauty destabilized? Disability re-valued? Sexuality and Disability, 25, 51–64. {{doi|10.1007/s11195-007-9036-x}}

Some people{{who|date=January 2023}} question whether amputating one's own body parts or operating on a partner for the sake of sexual pleasure is ethical. For some,{{who|date=January 2023}} modifying the body is a private ritual of self-ownership and freedom of choice. Psychiatrists may make a diagnosis of body integrity identity disorder.Robin Marantz Henig. (March 22, 2005) [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/health/psychology/22ampu.html At War With Their Bodies, They Seek to Sever Limbs]. The New York Times. Retrieved: 2008.02.08.fleshbot.com (March 22, 2005) [http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/found/devotees-pretenders-and-wannabes-036808.php Devotees, Pretenders and Wannabes.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223070910/http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/found/devotees-pretenders-and-wannabes-036808.php |date=February 23, 2007 }}

The term amelotatism has also been used to describe acrotomophilia. The sexual interest in being an amputee is apotemnophilia.John Money, Kent W. Simcoe. 1984. [https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01101829 Sexuality and Disability Journal. "Acrotomophilia, sex and disability: New concepts and case report".] Springer Netherlands. ISSN 0146-1044 (Print) 1573-6717 (Online).Janice M. Irvine. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=uIJXT7ZCTCsC&pg=PA4 Disorders of Desire: Sexuality And Gender In Modern American Sexology]. {{ISBN|1-59213-151-4}}. (p. 4). John Money (1977) used the terms autoapotemnophilia and alloapotemnophilia to describe the erotic interest of wanting to be or appear as an amputee versus wanting amputees as sexual partners;Money, J., Jobaris, R., & Furth, G. (1977). Apotemnophilia: Two cases of self demand amputation as a sexual preference. The Journal of Sex Research, 13, 115–124. {{doi|10.1080/00224497709550967}} neither term has been widely used since. The term teratophilia is used to describe arousal from deformed or monstrous people.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNkNhPZQprcC&q=Teratophilia&pg=PA381 | title=Forensic and Medico-Legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices | last=Aggrawal | first=Anil | author-link=Anil Aggrawal | publisher=CRC Press | year=2008 | isbn=978-1-4200-4308-2}}

• Attraction to disability
• Body dysmorphic disorder
• Boxing Helena, a feature film concerning amputee fetishism
• Disability pretenders
• Disability
• Genital modification and mutilation
• List of paraphilias

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