Devotees?

Tonight we had another encounter with a "disability devotee" - defined as a type of paraphilia:
This paraphilia is a type of sexual fetish involving attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those with appliances such as braces or wheelchairs. Another word for a person with this fetish is devotee.

Now I really am a therapist. Trained in sexual stuff. And I have a disability; multiple sclerosis. But this was new to me till about 2 months ago when I got a semi-literate IM from someone who was trolling the Wheelies group in SL, looking for females who appeared online. "Are you an amputee?" Yeah, buddy, that's quite the smooth opening line women are dying to hear. I was building and answered something along the lines of "Huh?" He went on to tell me how he "worhisped women in wheelchairs" and wanted to know if I could walk. Okay by now my skin is crawling. This is not a client, this is unsolicited, this is personal. And, just, eww. End of story, this guy had been trolling enough women that he got the boot and that was that.
Oh, wait. He wasn't the only one. I guess there was a whole workshop in-world about it, and tonight one showed up where a group of us were dancing. Just to...watch. And IM. One thing we all had in inventory were wheelchairs, so when he finally left we put them on and had a laugh. Talked about using the next devotee as a speed bump.

Then he came back. And we all, en masse, went to have a chat with Mr. Paraphilia. It was kind of sad to see how excited he got when he saw 5-6 female avatars in wheelchairs coming his way. Alas, he was disappointed in what real women with disabilities are like.

Now, again. This man was not my client. He came to us, in what has been for a couple of years a safe place to be. He started off with apparently the requisite "Are you an amputee?" line. To a group of about 5 women and one man, all with various RL disabilities. His profile was filled with amputee and wheelchair related sex clubs. Yeah, I know.

He got an earful from a pretty offended group of people, some of us trying to explain about what it feels like to be the focus of a paraphilia, some very angry. Most of us a bit of both. He tried to make peace. "I don't mean to offense. I feel sorry for you rl." Umm, yeah. Don't be.

"But all the sex club amputees are rl amuptee women." LOL. Okaaaaay. And I am the Queen of Sheba.

Some days I think I have seen it all. Where I work there is a locked unit, two in fact. Some very sick folks, trying to get better. Other days, like this one, I just shake my head.