- Abasiophilia
Abasiophilia is a psychosexual attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those who use orthopaedic appliances such as
leg brace s,orthopedic cast s,spinal brace s, orwheelchair s.cite book |last= Butcher |first= Nancy |title= The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse: A Chronicle of Medical Mysteries, Curious Remedies, and Bizarre but True Healing Folklore |pages= "p". 132 |isbn= 1583331603 |oclc= 52107453 |year= 2003 |publisher= Avery |location= New York] The term abasiophilia was first used byJohn Money of the Johns Hopkins University in a paper onparaphilia s in 1990.cite book |last= Laws |first= D. Richard |coauthors= William O'Donohue |title= Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment |publisher= The Guilford Press |location= New York |year= 1997 |isbn= 1572302410 |oclc= 37180958 |pages= "p". 412]It is classed as a form of
disability fetishism which starts in earlychildhood , usually long beforepuberty is reached. There is normally a trigger event in early childhood involving disabled children or adults. It is most common in those who were children in the 1940s, 50s and 60s whenpolio was common and there were more people using leg braces than today.Fact|date=February 2007 Studies made in the last 10 years of people contributing to internet leg-brace devotee groups confirms the most common age of leg-brace devotees and wannabes as between 50 and 70; there are few leg-brace devotees aged less than 40.Fact|date=April 2007More recently, some have suggested that abasiophilia is a form of
Body Integrity Identity Disorder , usually associated with people wishing to electively become amputees. The stimuli for abasiophilia are usually leg-braces, wheelchairs, crutches, spinal or neck braces and prosthetics worn by some people with mobility impairments.Fact|date=April 2007ee also
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Amputee fetishism
*Attraction to disability
*Glasses fetishism
*Medical fetishism
*Crash (1996 film) References
* "Lovemaps; Clinical Concepts of Sexual / Erotic Health And Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity" by John Money (ISBN 0879754567)
Further reading
*Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality Vol 3, issue 2, 1990 "Paraphilia in Females Fixation on Amputation and Lameness; Two Personal Accounts" pp 165 - 172 by John Money PhD,
Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 21205. This is the first record of the term "abasiophilia" being used.
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