Lovemaps

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

John Money

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Year: 2012
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781616140458
• Subtopic: Human Sexuality in Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

The word "lovemap" was first used by Dr. John Money in lectures at Johns Hopkins University in 1980 to symbolize "the neutral template expressed in every individual''s sexuoerotic fantasies and practices." The word connotes our often subconscious pattern of erotic yearnings and desire. Each of us has a distinctive lovemap, as different and individual as a fingerprint.In this book, Dr. Money outlines healthy lovemap development as well as lovemap pathology - lovemaps gone awry. Such pathology falls into three categories: hypophilia (sexual dysfunction, such as impotence), hyperphilia (erotomania), and paraphilia (perversions). Paraphilia, another term coined by Money (from the Latin para - away from what is expected, and philia - love) can range from "those that are playful and harmless to those that are bizarre and deadly."Presenting case histories, Lovemaps describes the sexual practices of several patients and subsequent treatments of their paraphilias. Money pioneered the application of the hormone MPA, or Depo-Provera, to treat repeat sex criminals. He believes he has proved that science can prevent paraphilic sex offending, as is the case for other, physiological diseases.Lovemaps and its stirring accounts of lovemap pathology in case histories, (which are indexed under "paraphilia"), can be invaluable tools for those in the fields of sexology, child psychology, clinical psychology, criminology and, with its comprehensive glossary, the general reader - in short, anyone interested in human sexual development.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction and Synopsis
• Chapter 1 Human Sexual Rights
• Chapter 2 Species Diversity of Sex and Mating
• Chapter 3 Lovemaps: Their Development
• Chapter 4 The Vulnerable Male
• Chapter 5 Saint and Sinner: Opponent Process
• Chapter 6 Sacrifice and Expiation
• Chapter 7 Marauding and Predation
• Chapter 8 Mercantile and Venal Strategies
• Chapter 9 Fetishes and Talismans
• Chapter 10 Stigmata and Eligibility
• Chapter 11 Solicitation and Allure
• Chapter 12 Phylism: I
• Chapter 13 Phylisms: II
• Chapter 14 Paraphilia and Gender Transposition
• Chapter 15 Strategy and Phylism in Gender Transposition
• Chapter 16 Dissociation
• Chapter 17 Treatment
• Chapter 18 Informed Consent
• Chapter 19 Victimology
• Chapter 20 Contagion, Degeneracy, and Pornography
• Chapter 21 Bisexualism and Autassassinophilia in the Lovemap of a Male Hermaphrodite
• Chapter 22 The Lovemap of Gynemimesis and Gynemimetophilia
• Chapter 23 The Lovemap of Acrotomophilia
• Chapter 24 The Lovemap of Asphyxiophilia
• Chapter 25 Motherhood Encumbered by a Nepiophilic/Zoophilic Lovemap
• Chapter 26 Vocabulary of the Paraphilias, A to Z
• Glossary of Terms
• Bibliography