What are .......?

Question

"devotees?" I've heard the term but don't think I've ever known what they are. Is it something that I should worry about?

Shilar

Answer 1

A devotee is somebody who is attracted to a person because they have a physical disability such as an amputation. And is most often used to describe those that are attracted to amputees.

Acrotomophilia (also known as amelotatism) is a sexual attraction to amputees or other people missing limbs. The name is derived from the Greek akron (extremity), tomein (to cut) and philein (to love).

Acrotomophilia was first recognized in clinics as a rare phenomenon in the western world in the early 1990s.

Although there are many exceptions, the majority of Amputee Devotees tend to be highly educated Caucasian males.[1].

There exists a vast online community of acrotomophiles who prefer to identify themselves most commonly as “Amputee Devotees”. There are also other common names used such as “Amputee Lover”, “Amputee Admirer” and so on. These names can be used interchangeably. There is a common difference between Amputee Devotees and Amputee Wannabes. Although these are two different kinds of communities, they do interact closely with each other. It is important to realize that just because one individual might want their partner to be an amputee, it does not necessarily follow that they would want to be an amputee themself. Nevertheless there are some people for whom this is in fact the case.

Answer 2

No do not worry ..devotees are those dedicated to something.. some are called fans etc.

Answer 3

Well, at an extreme, they can be dangerous. There was a 21 Jump Street episode about a guy who was "kinky" for disabled women, and it really meant he saw them as easy targets for rape. But there are also people who end up being friends with quite a few disabled people because they meet them under the right circumstances, want to be friends, and find that most people whose disability is visible have very few friends. So they become more loyal friends than would otherwise be the case with able-bodied types.

Then there are people who have one sort of disability who end up being friends with people of other sorts of disabilities because they got more matter-of-fact, sensible sorts of responses to their own needs than they did from the able-bodied.

I'm one of those. My main disability is arthritis mostly caused by morbid obesity, and I have had several friends who are orthopedically disabled. It seems that especially accident victims understand that even if the disability could be interpreted as self-inflicted (as, for example, the guy who fell asleep at the wheel of his car and damaged his spine), once you have it, you have to cope. It does no good to tell someone they are bad, they brought it on themselves, etc.

I'm still trying to get used to dealing with my disability without falling victim to the PC types who say I am awful because I do not use the "correct" words for each disability. So please don't hassle me about that, OK, folks?

Answer 4

I think this is self-explanitory...a "devotee" is someone who is devoted to someone or something...a person, a cause, etc. Its just a new-age term for "fan" or "follower".

Answer 5

if i understood right when an e-pal wrote me, it is a person who likes or has a since of interest in a person who is an amputee. the amputee gets their hormones in an up-roar.

as something to worry about NO they respect you for who you are and won't bother you if you tell them to leave you alone.

Answer 6

Shilar, are you looking for something to worry about?

Look it up in the dictionary