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 cases sexuoerotic triumph results from tragedy; sinful lust is incorporated into the lovemap. With sacrificial and expiatory paraphilias there is a requirement of atonement with penance or sacrifice that can range from humiliation to death. For marauding and predatory paraphilias tragedy is triumph with sinful lust in the lovemap that can only be stolen or imposed by force. Mercantile and venal paraphilias have the condition that sinful lust must be traded, purchased and paid for, but not freely...