Acrotomophilia

Quick meaning: Acrotomophilia is a noun meaning (psychology) A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees.

Meaning

(psychology) A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees.

Example Sentences

Although there is no adequate explanation of the etiology of acrotomophilia, evidence points to a developmental onset in early childhood.

You have to already be afflicted with the syndrome of acrotomophilia (which has its genesis in childhood) in order to be turned-on by amputation stumps.

...the fetishistic attachment is not to an object but to a part of the partner's body, for example the hair or, in the case of acrotomophilia, the stump of an amputated limb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apotemnophilia, acropathology, teratophilia, acroparaesthesia, xenomelia, acromania.

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