Amelotatism

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Amelotatism (from the Greek a “without”, melo “limb”, tasis “affection”), also called amputation fetishism, is a sexual preference for people with missing limbs . It is a form of deformation fetishism that denotes a sexual predilection for physical mutilations or deformities.

Amelotatism less often includes apotemnophilia , the desire to amputate one's own limbs. Less common names for this tendency are acrotomophilia , amelotaphilia , amputophilia , amelotasis, and amputism . A special form of amelotatism is the sexual preference for partners with walking difficulties, which is known as abasiophilia .

As a rule, amelotatism is not a disease. In particular, according to international understanding, amelotatism is not a form of sexual fetishism , since the preference is not directed towards an inanimate object. If the amelotatism takes on pathological proportions, an "unspecified paraphilia " can be diagnosed. Only when using the US diagnostic guidelines of the DSM IV can amelotatism be classified as sexual fetishism if it is pathological. In extreme cases there is an overlap with sadism and masochism with self-mutilation .

In the course of special interest , amelotatists often refer to themselves as devotee (abbreviation devo ), admirer , mancophil or amelo . Amelotatists are predominantly men with an interest in amputated women.

Possible causes

There are several theories, but no reliable knowledge, about the cause of the development of amelotatism. One theory is based on the amelotatist as a “weak man” who gets along better with disabled women than with non-disabled people. According to another theory, amelotatism is an incomplete form of sadism in which the partner is already mutilated (the pain is not added by the amelotatist) and the amelotatist only protects the person, as is usually the case with sadism after adding it of pain happens. Others see a connection between an encounter with an amputee in childhood and the later development of amelotatism in puberty.

A theory based on Sigmund Freud brings amelotatism together with the Oedipus and castration complexes . According to this, the amputation stump is very similar to a phallus and gives the man back the belief in the penis in the woman, which alleviates his own castration fear. This theory is also supported by the fact that rubbing the amputee's stump on the amelotatist's body is understood in many amelotatism fantasy stories as the initiation of the sexual act, analogous to rubbing the man's penis against the body of the sex partner.

Problems

For people with disabilities and their environment, meeting amelotatists can lead to emotional problems. Those affected often report a pure “residual limb fixation” in which the affected person feels reduced to their disability, which is often already associated with complexes. There are also cases in which amelotatists secretly take photos and video recordings of amputees without consent and in some cases disseminate them, which violates their personal rights. There have also been reports of intrusiveness and harassment of those affected by amelotatists. However, there are also reports of happy relationships between amputees and amelotatists.

Amelotatists often feel impaired by their inclination and have only limited opportunities to live out their preference and to establish appropriate social contacts. Since the end of the 1990s, under the influence of new media such as the Internet , a stronger network of "Amelos" has developed.

In most serious forums by and for the disabled, amelotatists are not welcome, as the preference given to the disabled person simply because of their handicap and the behavior of some amelotatists can lead to conflicts.

See also

literature

  • Ilse Martin: Mancophilia - There is only one deficiency missing for perfection . Homo-Mancus-Verlag, Maintal 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814104-1-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Keywords amputation fetishism and deformation fetishism . In: Pschyrembel Dictionary Sexuality. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-016965-7 , p. 18 and p. 80.
  2. ↑ Abasiophilia . In: Pschyrembel Dictionary Sexuality. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-016965-7 , p. 1.
  3. ↑ a b c fetish disability? In: Handicap - The magazine for quality of life online. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .