Acrotomophilia
Acrotomophilia (from the Greek ákron [extremity], tómos [a cut] and philía [love]), refers to a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees. It is a counterpart to apotemnophilia, the sexual interest in being an amputee.
Interests and behaviours
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. According to Solvang (2007), “Devotees adhere to standard conceptions of attractiveness in all other matters outside of amputations.”
Ethical issues
Some people question whether amputating one's own body parts or operating on a partner for the sake of sexual pleasure is ethical. For some, modifying the body is a private ritual of self-ownership and freedom of choice. Psychiatrists may make a diagnosis of Body integrity identity disorder (B.I.I.D.).
Terminology
The term amelotatism has also been used to describe acrotomophilia. The sexual interest in being an amputee is apotemnophilia. 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; neither term has been widely used since. The term teratophilia is used to describe arousal from deformed or monstrous people.
Podcasts:
Acrotomophilia
ALBUMS
- Coprophagical Trauma released: 2004
Coprophagical Trauma
Released 2004- Coprophagical Trauma
- Putrefected Entrails
- Vomit Eruption
- Tender Meat Mutilator
- 94th Anual Rape-Victims Pool Party
- Rest in Pieces
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Genital Mutilation by Aids Infected Whores
- Excercising Porno Poetry
- Suck Slut!
- Malignant Infected Ulcer
- Piano Chord Dismemberment
- Raped, Slaughtered and Mutilated
- Outro
