Weekly Wikipedia Find: Amputee fetishism

I was going to call this entry "devotee," but the Wikipedia entry for it is "amputee fetishism." We're getting a little ahead of ourselves, though.

There's something mysteriously alluring about somebody disabled. Somebody in a wheelchair or missing a leg or two.

Nubs.

It's just a whole new equation.

Where I'm coming at. My view of the eroticism is the new flesh angle. The New Flesh. This is the future. Body Mod. Transhuman.

Devotees, though. Those are the ones who have amputee fetishism. They have their own certain pathology. They are acrotomophiles. They prefer leg amputations to arm amputations. And stumps over no stumps. There name says it all: devotion. They want to be needed. They want to be of use. It's a power relationship. They want the amputee to be needing help, to be dependent.

And to that I say, "welcome to the new flesh."

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