We’ve never been known to shy away from the taboo here at your favorite blogsite. We have, for example, posted not one, but two lengthy entries on the “crusher” fetish.

The latest bizarro fetish it seems has something to do with amputees. Not sex with amputees, as you might expect, but a desire to actually become an amputee. Yes. Nuts are hacking off their own limbs.

Pause now, and reflect on the glory that is America. We have reached a point of such affluence and comfort, that we needn’t worry any more about how we’re going to eat, where we’re going to sleep, the sterility of our water, or when bombs might drop down on our thatched-roof huts.

No, here in America, we can afford to entertain worries more esoteric, fantstical, and just fucking bizarre. Worries like:

“Woe! Despair! Melancholy! I long for just one arm and — Goddammit — I have been cursed with two!”

Slate has a piece on a documentary about the phenomenon, as well as some feedback from actual, involuntary amputees, most of whom sensibly see the whole wannabe-amputee scene as self-indulgent crap.

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