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Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.
Acrotomophilia (from the Greek ἀκρότομος "having the top cut off"; from ἄκρον akron "extremity" and --τομος-tomos from τέμνω temno "I cut" and φιλία philia "love") is a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees.
For individual amputees, see Category:Fictional amputees. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
“Many (amputees) are being rejected by their families and communities. They don’t believe they have love,” the 51-year-old Samai said. He felt moved to help after being a refugee himself in ...
Attraction to disability is a sexualised interest in the appearance, sensation and experience of disability. [1] It may extend from normal human sexuality into a type of sexual fetishism.
B. B. D. (Doonesbury) Baba Yaga (Hellboy) Baiken; Baltimore (comics) Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire; Myrcella Baratheon; Hector Barbossa
Acrotomophilia—the desire for amputees; Andy Pipkin, a character from Little Britain, who pretends to be disabled; Apotemnophilia—sexual arousal based on the desire to be or appear as an amputee; Attraction to disability—the broad range of sexualised fascinations projected onto disabled people
Body integrity dysphoria (BID), also referred to as body integrity identity disorder (BIID), amputee identity disorder or xenomelia, and formerly called apotemnophilia, is a rare mental disorder characterized by a desire to have a sensory or physical disability or feeling discomfort with being able-bodied, beginning in early adolescence and resulting in harmful consequences. [1]