Fantasy Amputee
Marika Szala
Jenny Brown lost her leg below the knee when she was just 10 years old. Today, as a grown woman, animal activist and book author, she runs a farm animal sanctuary dedicated to helping abused and neglected animals, some of whom are also amputees.
And while she does feel a special connection to the animals who are, like her, amputees, she is passionate about giving every one of the 200 animals at the sanctuary the \"fantasy farm life.\" She's dedicated her life to the cause of helping farm animals, to educating the masses on seeing them in a different light -- more than commodities, she said.
\"People are so disconnected form nature. They come and it's like they're living out a fantasy of rubbing pig bellies and frolicking with goats. We try to educate with a gentle message, because it's what we find most effective. The animals themselves are the greatest ambassadors. They have amazing stories to tell,\" Brown said.
Acrotomophiles may be attracted to amputees because they like the way they look or they may view the amputee's stump as a phallic object which can be used for sexual pleasure.[1] Acrotomophiles may enjoy the idea of dominating the amputee during couples play and they may also become aroused with the thought of having to take care of an amputee.
The term amelotatism has also been used to describe acrotomophilia. The sexual interest in being an amputee is apotemnophilia.[6][7] John Money (1977) used the terms autoapotemnophilia and alloapotemnophilia to describe the erotic interest of wanting to be or appear as an amputee versus wanting amputees as sexual partners;[8] neither term has been widely used since. The term teratophilia is used to describe arousal from deformed or monstrous people.[9]
And it may lead to even greater things. Richard, who reportedly carries a 3.5 GPA, hopes to land a basketball scholarship and inspire amputee athletes, just like one-armed University of Florida-bound basketball recruit Zach Hoskins, who recently made headlines again with this dramatic shot.) And Richard knows it isn't all about basketball, as he aims to inspire Haitian children who lost limbs in the earthquake.
Most recently, Richard played in the MaxPreps Holiday Classic, where Mitch Stephens caught up with him for a feature on the inspirational amputee, detailing the Citrus Hill standout's harrowing battle with tibial agenisis, a congenital condition that cost him the lower part of his leg at 15 months old, and his triumph through basketball.
Hodge wants to be the first double amputee quarterback in the NFL. He loves football. Breathes football. And his favorite player is Matthew Stafford. Which led him to Detroit, to Ford Field and to a moment he'll never forget. Hodge, who artificial-turf company FieldTurf helped bring to Lions practice, thought he was heading to watch Stafford and the other Lions quarterbacks work out.
More than anything, though, he wants to inspire. He won an ESPY award given out locally this summer and has been contacted by parents of amputees who were born with a similar condition. Hodge said he offered one mother the same advice he lives by.
I'm working on my fantasy world, and one of my goals is to really make it feel like it has diversity. Every species place person and culture should feel unique, but one thing I've really neglected to tackle is how would a person who was disabled live their life in this world.
On the topic of disability, I think the one I want to tackle first is amputees. Now I don't know anyone who is an amputee, but from what I've gathered prosthetic limbs can be very cumbersome to deal with and sometimes bordering on painful. Most of the fantasy prosthetics I see are just plain enchanted metal on skin, and somehow I don't think this would be very comfortable. My world is pretty primitive technology wise, and magic isn't widely used to have magic prosthetics readily available.
As a designer, I tend to prioritize a fun design over real world practically, but this is something important enough that I really want to get it right, so tell me, does anyone have good ideas about fantasy prosthetics designs or how to better incorporate them into the world?
Representation of physical disabilities is hard to find, especially in sci-fi/fantasy, so my goal is to make a list containing as many sci-fi/fantasy books with physically disabled and chronically ill characters as possible.
Peter Soyer Beagle is the internationally bestselling and much-beloved author of numerous classic fantasy novels and collections, including The Last Unicorn. He has also been honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award.
The game is the nearly the same, with only minor alterations. The goalkeepers have lost an arm, and the remaining field players utilize forearm crutches to maneuver on a field approximately one-third the size of a regulation pitch. The goal is also smaller. The crutches cannot be used to direct the ball. The Haitians are talented, ranked No. 7 in the world after competing in a recent World Cup for amputee teams in Mexico.
Some men sexually attracted to types of persons (e.g., women) or things (e.g., animals) also have internalized sexual attractions: sexual arousal by the idea of being the type of person or thing to whom they are attracted. Consequently, some of these men develop erotic target identity inversions, in which they imitate, yearn to be, or identify as an instance of their erotic target. Erotic Target Identity Inversion Theory predicts that for every external erotic target to which men are attracted, a subset of men will develop an internalized sexual attraction, which may cause an erotic target identity inversion. We examined these predictions in Internet surveys of three samples of men with paraphilic sexual interests: 322 men attracted to amputees, 1501 men attracted to animals, and 402 men attracted to severely obese persons. All samples included substantial minorities of men reporting internalized sexual attractions and erotic target identity inversions specific to their external sexual attractions (e.g., men attracted to amputees who are also aroused by the fantasy of being amputees and wish to become amputees). The correlation between degree of each internalized sexual attraction and degree of its corresponding erotic target identity inversion was approximately 1.0 after correction for attenuation. In each sample, participants' specific internalized sexual attraction was positively correlated with autogynephilia, likely the most common internalized sexual attraction in men. Erotic Target Identity Inversion Theory can potentially explain a variety of otherwise puzzling phenomena, including transgender identity among female-attracted natal males and men seeking amputations of healthy limbs.
Paralympic medalist and double amputee Blake Leeper is set to race at the USATF Outdoor Championships (Summer Champions Series) on Thursday, his first meet since the end of a two-year suspension.
USA Track and Field could not recall a double amputee previously competing at a USATF Outdoor Championships. Legally blind Paralympic champion runner Marla Runyan made U.S. Olympic teams in 2000 and 2004.
"Qu'avez-vous fait avec mes jambes? (What have you done with my legs?)" cries Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a young woman in the 2012 French film "Rust and Bone." Stephanie has become something rarely seen in a feature film, let alone as a female central character: having lost both her legs in an occupational accident, Stephanie is a cinematic double above-knee amputee.
"Rust and Bone" is an unconventional melodrama: at its heart is sanctimony, yet the film has received positive reviews for being "edgy" and "fearlessly emotional" (Turan). It may well be the only commercially released film which positions a female amputee in a central role, and in so doing, brings the general public at once into the world of the amputee and the complicated dynamic of female disability. The film has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in the categories of Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress for Marion Cotillard. It is, along with "Amour" and "The Untouchables," one of three internationally praised French films released in 2012 which all deal with themes of disability.
The historic role of the cinematic amputee has been based on stereotypes of what an amputee "should" be in the popular imagination: a tragic yet uplifting male figure who has lost one or both legs, often while fighting for his country. Indeed, the recent Stephen Spielberg film "Lincoln" contains a scene in which the 16th president visits wounded soldiers in a military hospital entirely populated by amputees, including double amputees. Hollywood's most garish illustration of the stereotype, the 1994 social fantasy "Forrest Gump," portrays Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) first as a tragic victim of war, then a shaggy-haired drug addict, and finally as a clean-shaven veteran with fiancée in hand proudly displaying his prosthetic legs. 1 The image of the female amputee, however, is far less defined. Sadly, director Jacques Audiard chooses to portray Stephanie in the most simplistic stereotypical ways while at the same time completely ignoring fundamental realities of amputee rehabilitation.
We then move on to prosthetics. A brief scene in which Stephanie is being cast for new legs by a helpful (male) prosthetist informs us that there are now "electronic knees that can think for themselves" and that some prosthetic feet can be worn in high heels because "it's important for women." With not a single illustration of this new amputee working with a physiotherapist, learning to walk in parallel bars and dealing with the enormous challenge of being a double above-knee amputee (the vast majority of amputees are single, below knee), "Rust and Bone" does not merely gloss over the realities of post-operative amputee rehabilitation but chooses to ignore them entirely. The fundamental reality of learning to walk on prosthetics is never illustrated or described. Even in subsequent dialogue, Stephanie never reflects on her first days of physiotherapy.
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