LOVEMAPS
Introduction/Summary
Lovemaps by Mon
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Lovemaps by Money (1993) is a book about the development of human sexuality and eroticism. The author began using the term lovemap to replace the expression "an idealized and highly idiosyncratic image" (p. xvi). The lovemap is pronounced to be like a template in the brain that characterizes the idealized lover and the idealized, amorous, erotic, and sexualized relationship. Lovemap is said to differentiate as heterosexual without complexities, under optimum conditions; sexuoerotic rehearsal play found in infancy and childhood is the prerequisite to healthy heterosexual lovemap formation. Deprivation, neglect, prohibition, or abusive discipline and punishment of this play, or abrupt exposure to tabooed expression of sexuoeroticism may traumatize and jeopardize the lovemap formation. The most vulnerable years for lovemap vandalism are thought to be between age five and age eight; males are proclaimed to be more vulnerable than females. The author states that lovemap pathology has three categories: hypophilia (sexual dysfunction), hyperphilia (erotomania), and paraphilia (legally defined perversion). In hypophilia lust is dysfunctional but love and lovebonding are intact. In hyperphilia lust displaces love and lovebonding. In paraphilia love and lovebonding are also displaced, but in this case the genitalia function in the service of lust according to a vandalized and redesigned lovemap. Paraphilia has six categories, in all case
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d one of the fetishistic or talismanic paraphilias (transvestophilia). Homosexuality, like heterosexuality, may or may not incorporate paraphiliac imagery or practice and therefore neither are necessarily classified as paraphilias. Gender transposition is viewed as a strategy to resolve a saint/sinner sexuoerotic antithesis. "This strategy dispossesses the lovemap of a potential partner of its franchise to be defiled by sinful lust, and thus elevates the potential partner to the status of lust-free saint" (p. 111). Lessor extremes examples of gender-transposition includes simple homosexual pairing; the opposite extreme includes complete transsexual reassignment of the deputy in lust.
Critique
This book proposes to offer a comprehensive explanation of the development of sexual and erotic health and pathology. A strength of the book is the detailed explanation of how and why a lovemap is developed for different types of paraphilia and gender transposition. A weakness is the lack of incorporation of existing scientific research and theories to support the authors conclusions. The book's strength lies in an explanation of the development of sexual pathology; a weakness of the book is the lack of equal understanding regard
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