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(psychology) A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees..
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.
Although there is no adequate explanation of the etiology of acrotomophilia, evidence points to a developmental onset in early childhood...
...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.
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Acrotomophilia means (psychology) A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees..
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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.
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