Definitions
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- noun A
mental conception of one'sideal lover andsex life .
Etymologies
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love + map, coined by John Money in 1980.
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Examples
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Money's the guy who formalized the concept of the "lovemap" and its programming development period (say, between the ages of about five and eight years old) as an explanation for how adult sexuality and affectionate bonds manifest.
periods of rain today, highs in the mid-forties triciasullivan 2007
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The running psychological theory is that we eroticize what has shamed, hurt, or frightened us, that our "lovemap cartographic systems," as described by John Money, the famous John Hopkins psychologist, are learned.
LUSTY LADY Rachel 2010
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