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The lovemap is a concept originated by sexologist John Money in his discussions of how people develop their sexual preferences. Money defined it as "a developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexual and erotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with that lover."
John Money was a leading proponent of the idea that human sexual orientation develops through learning and gendered socialization. [49] He believed that males, if surgically reassigned and raised as girls around birth, would grow up to be attracted to males and live as heterosexual women. [ 50 ]
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Her work with Money on paraphilia led to the concept of "vandalized lovemaps." [4] [5] Their book profiles seven young people based on Money's neurodevelopmental theory of paraphilia development, based on observations in non-human animals. Money and Lamacz the make observations about each outcome once the seven are adults.
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The New York Times profiled his findings. Where John had once felt hopelessly bewildered by love, he began to feel as if he could eavesdrop on a couple sitting across from him in a restaurant and get a pretty good sense of their chances of divorce. “John had these brilliant insights,” Julie told me, “but nothing was being done with them.”
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