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simonwtoday at 8:13 PM1 replyview on HN

Would you be comfortable later finding out that the surgeon who amputated your leg had an amputation fetish?

What if that surgeon's advice had been part of the decision process that lead to you deciding to go ahead with amputation?


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stavrostoday at 8:17 PM

Admittedly I'm not sure how an amputation fetish works. I don't know if it's about the act of amputation itself or if he liked looking at amputee porn, for example.

Like someone might have a humiliation fetish but not actually like seeing people get humiliated in the workplace, for example. A sexual context and an everyday context are very different.

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