Post by philbadfactor on Oct 2, 2022 17:52:10 GMT
www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/02/is-the-body-key-to-understanding-consciousness
Some BIID sufferers do indeed report a sexual aspect to their desire to amputate. But they invariably describe their experience in terms of self-identity. One participant in Melody Gilbert’s 2003 documentary Whole says that he “finally became a person late in life” after blowing his own leg off with a shotgun.