Acrotomophilia (from the Greek ἀκρότομος "having the top cut off"; from ἄκρον akron "extremity" and --τομος -tomos from τέμνω temno "I cut" and φιλία philia "love") is a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees.
[2] According to Per Solvang (2007), "Devotees adhere to standard conceptions of attractiveness in all other matters outside of amputations.
question whether amputating one's own body parts or operating on a partner for the sake of sexual pleasure is ethical.
Psychiatrists may make a diagnosis of body integrity identity disorder.
[6][7] John Money (1977) used the terms autoapotemnophilia and alloapotemnophilia to describe the erotic interest of wanting to be or appear as an amputee versus wanting amputees as sexual partners;[8] neither term has been widely used since.