Apotemnophilia is a neurological disorder that affects the
right parietal lobe in people who are sane and rational, yet express a strong
desire to have a healthy limb or limbs amputated. This disorder can cause a person to feel
discontented with their body and seek out ways to damage an otherwise healthy limb
and have it removed. Perhaps, the
discontentment of one’s body caused apotemnophilia who knows for sure.
Some who
suffer with sexual dysfunctions like sexual arousal or attainment of orgasm believe
that removal of a limb is the only way to obtain satisfaction or happiness. However, a child who feels unloved or more so
was unloved by parents or caregivers throughout life could also develop this
disorder and desire to have a limb amputated.
Doing so for them would gain them more attention, more love and sympathy
from parents or others.
It’s possible
for someone who is homosexual or heterosexual to be an apotemnophiliac. Studies
show that apotemnophilia is frequently connected to sexual desire however
through reading apotemnophilia has a lot to do with self-identity and happiness
with one’s own self.
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