Lovemaps

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.