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Abasiophilia is a psychosexual attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those who use orthopaedic appliances such as leg braces, orthopedic casts, or wheelchairs. The term abasiophilia was first used by John Money of the Johns Hopkins University in a paper on paraphilias, in 1990.

In popular culture

Abasiophilia plays a prominent role in the Michael Connelly novel The Scarecrow, in which a serial killer is motivated by abasiophilia.

See also

• Attraction to disability
• Medical fetishism
• Crash (1996 film)
• Quid Pro Quo (2008 film)

Footnotes

1. Butcher, Nancy (2003). The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse: A Chronicle of Medical Mysteries, Curious Remedies, and Bizarre but True Healing Folklore. New York: Avery. p. 132. ISBN 1-58333-160-3. OCLC 52107453.
2. Money, J (1990). "Paraphilia in Females Fixation on Amputation and Lameness; Two Personal Accounts". Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality. 3 (2): 165–72. doi:10.1300/j056v03n02_11.
3. Milner, JS; Dopke CA (2008). "Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified: Psychopathology and theory". In Laws DR & O'Donohue WT (ed.). Sexual Deviance, Second Edition: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. New York: The Guilford Press. pp. 384–418. ISBN 978-1-59385-605-2.
4. Connelly, Michael (2009). The Scarecrow. New York: Little, Brown and Company. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-316-16630-0.

References

• Money, John (1988). Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity. Buffalo, N.Y: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-456-7.

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