Teratophilia
Teratophilia is a technical term for a sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people. A
teratophiliac is someone who is attracted to such people. One version of Teratophilia is sexual attraction to
amputees. Considerable commercial and amateur erotica is published apparently targeting people with such a sexual attraction. Persons attracted to amputees in particular are said to be engaging in
amputee fetishism. Teratophilia is a specific category of
paraphilia.
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Dictionary of Unusual Sexual Terms*Koren G (1993) "Cocaine and the human fetus: the concept of teratophilia."
Neurotoxicol Teratol 15: 301-304 (
online abstract)
En Brazos De La Mujer Fetiche by Rtxebarria, Lucia And Sonia N. Puente (Barcelona, Ediciones Destino 2002) includes a chapter on teratophilia
