How much to lose your legs??

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I'll set the YABU/ YANBU rate to £10m. YABU still keeping them, they're mine. YANBU already picking out wheelchairs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75r21ww30vo
Assuming there is truth to this - WTF??? Even rolling myself up to £50m I'm in visceral horror. The money is only useful in my opinion if you can cycle, run, climb steps to change a lightbulb, play football with your kids, and feel your legs there anytime you want.

So do you have a limit?

Indeed. They HAVE to.

People have been know to in extenuating circs I believe, but it is not clear who amputated them in any article I’ve read.

The article referred to one woman, then a later person who was trans and "she". I expect the majority are men.

Having seen how debilitating my DH's phantom pains can be, not to mention the impact on his mental health, then no amount of money would persuade me to willingly part with any of my limbs or even digits.

I truly cannot get my head around any of it

You must find this odd fetishism particularly disturbing, sorry.

Thanks, but not really. I have an online “presence” and have been approached there; I find it rather amusing and block immediately. What does disturb me is that I have had online contact with this dr; he admired the lights I put on my prosthetics at Christmas. My overwhelming feeling is sadness that he felt the need to have the amputations, especially from a position where he must have been aware of the ramifications. I suspect that the full story is much less cut and dried (unfortunate metaphor but it’s al I have!) than the headlines and reports at this stage suggest.

Anyone who finds this interesting (apologies if that is insensitive to those with experience of limb loss), maybe look into a young woman called Kelly Ronahan. She claims to have Bechet's, but it's actually very likely that she has Munchausen's/FII/Facticious Disorder and over the years has injured her own body to the result of both legs being amputated (If you do decide to look into it, please be warned, there are some HIGHLY GRAPHIC photos online, as she used to take pleasure in documenting her 'health issues')

I agree there may be a lot more to it.

It does seem like an advanced type of Munchausen.

I’ve not looked at the pictures but I did find someone on Reddit talking through what she had done. Poor girl is extremely mentally ill and having access to social media is not helping at all. I hope she is getting support now.

It’s not a male thing. There are many women like this. In BIID online spaces I’d say it’s fairly evenly split from what I’ve seen.

Well .... www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvpx20le2o

£466k then!! Really though, it's clear that it was the sexual thrill, which I'd grasped a bit better from other posters already. It's incredibly disturbing, but I suppose most mental illnesses are disturbing when you comprehend what that means for an individual mind.

He admitted it all in open court. The only part he says he regrets it the dishonesty. He froze his legs at home with dry ice and persuaded colleagues it was a circulation issue. They completed the amputation and were pretty confused/suspicious but I guess that just shows how they close ranks.

He was found out by his emails being found in another investigation where he had been communicating with this sicko, dubbed "Eunuch Maker" telling about his sexual arousal around amputation and having purchased pictures of "castrations".
You can read all about it online. And we are supposed to believe that Neil Hopper, a surgeon routinely performing amputations, was NOT getting sexual gratification by doing so??