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Apotemnophilia - Apotemnophilia Symptom, Cause, Treatment
Apotemnophilia is the medical term for an individual with the sexual fetish or paraphilia of being an amputee. An apotemnophile becomes fixated on carrying out a self-contrived amputation, or obtaining one in a hospital. Until recently, any desire for amputation was classified as this "disorder", but recently, the psychiatric community has begun to differentiate between this condition and Body Integrity Identity Disorder, in which an individual desires an amputation without an accompanying sexual component to this desire.
An individual with true apotemnophilia may be chronically unsatisfied with their sexual relationships, or even completely sexually disfunctional until their desire for amputation is realized. Apotemnophilia refers to the sexual attraction to amputations. Coprophilia and urophilia refer respectively to sexual excitement deriving from contact with feces and urine. Apotemnophilia condition is similar to Acrotomophilia but is differentiated by the desire for oneself to be an amputee as oposed to one's partner having an amputation.
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