Acrotomophilia
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acrotomophilia
Acrotomophilia is a sexual attraction to amputees or others missing limbs. The name is derived from the Greek akron (extremity), tomein (to cut) and philein (to love).
Acrotomophilia was first recognised in clinics as rare phenomenon in the western world in the early 1990s.
[edit] See also
- Paraphilia
- Apotemnophilia - where a person desires to become an amputee
- Amputee fetishism
- List of philias
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