Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In... [Paperback]

John Money (Author)

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Publication Date: February 1989

Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In...

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Product Details

• Paperback: 331 pages
• Publisher: Prometheus Books (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879754567
• ISBN-13: 978-0879754563
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #966,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars HOW SEXUAL FANTASIES GET IMPRINTED, October 7, 2010

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James L. Park "James Leonard Park" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In... (Paperback)

John Money
Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts of Sexual/Erotic
Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition
in Childhood, Adolescence, and Maturity

(New York: Irvington, 1986) 331 pages

This is a scientific work on unusual sex-scripts--paraphilias.
Exploring the origins and dynamics of these sometimes bizarre
sexual fantasies and rituals might illuminate the sex-scripts
of people who never seek psychiatric help because of their 'sex-drives'
and who never commit sex-crimes.
No sex-scripts or imprinted sexual fantasies are 'natural'.
At critical periods early in our lives, various items
('fetish' objects, traumatic experiences, chance associations, etc.)
were slipped into that part of our minds we might call our "sex-files".
And usually this 'sexual imprinting' remains for the rest of our lives.

If you would like to read other books on sexual imprinting,
search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"SEXOLOGY---SEX-SCRIPTS---BEST BOOKS".

James Leonard Park, author of
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies:
A New Key for Sexology.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Johns Hopkins Money Shot!, December 17, 2006

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Drew Hunkins (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In... (Paperback)

Dr. Money wrote eloquently and of course authoritatively about topics most would rather not give much thought to. Given that the paraphilias (typically referred to in common vernacular as "sexual perversions") he researched and profiled in Lovemaps continue to infect a new crop of sex offenders in each new generation, a book of this type is a fabulous resource yet sometimes disturbing read. Addressing everything from coprophilia and urophilia to child molestation and rape, Money presents it all with a brutal realism.

One key point Lovemaps presented is the concept of the window of vulnerability. Through Dr. Money's exhaustive studies he was able to pinpoint how sexual perversions or "paraphilias" develop. Paraphilias generally only exist in teens and adults if a traumatic incident happened to them when they were between the ages of five and eight. Hence, the ages five through eight appear to be a window of vulnerability. Apparently the traumatic experience need not only be sexual in nature. It also can possibly include verbal, emotional or physical abuse. To cite an example Money profiled in the book: a man had an insatiable need to visit gay bathhouses and peepshows in search of ever larger penises. The cause of his behavior was traced to an event that happened when he was five years old. During his window of vulnerability he was able to surreptitiously view his father showing his big penis to his older sister; he felt excluded and jealous. Another example Money documented was his notion that in some cases autoerotic-asphyxiophilia (arousal dependent on self-strangulation up to the moment just before unconsciousness) has its origins when five to eight year old children hold their breath during especially heavy crying spells. Boys are more susceptible than girls to having their lovemaps "vandalized". A vandalized lovemap essentially means the development of a paraphilia.

Unfortunately in our yet still repressive culture Money felt it necessary to emphasize that parents, educators, and authority figures should be open minded to what he called childhood sexual rehearsal play; basically two youths "playing doctor". Lovemaps proceeded to continually broach the idea that it is virtually impossible for kids to grow up without assimilating the concept that the genitals are a prime source of sin.

Dr. Money was an intellectual giant. While working out of Johns Hopkins University he conducted groundbreaking research into human sexual development, much of it culminating in outline format in Lovemaps. Having been written for both the layman and the professional psychiatric practitioner, Lovemaps is definitely a proverbial must read.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Read, January 26, 2009

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Edward Tillman "EDDY T" (CS. CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In... (Paperback)

this is a book that has a lot of information on perticular phillias. Dr. money explains many problems with sexuality and different fetishes. The only thing about this book is that it is written very drly and could be considered a school book rather then a enjoyable book.