Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesA paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees.
Although there is no adequate explanation of the etiology of acrotomophilia, evidence points to a developmental onset in early childhood...
1987, Psychological abstracts, volume 742 more examples
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.
1985, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Effect of pornography on women and children...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.
1990, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀκρότομος“having the top cut off”
- Englishacrotomophilia
From the Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrótomos, “having the top cut off”) + φιλία (philía).
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German Akrotomophilie
- Akrotomophiliesexual attraction toward amputees
Portuguese acrotomofilia
- acrotomofiliasexual attraction toward amputees
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