![]() ![]() ![]() Second, it considers Money's invention of the term ‘normophilia’ which works to construct an impossible standard for sexual behaviour. First, the article reveals and analyses Money's indebtedness in conceptualising paraphilia to a nineteenth-century sexological model of perversion, based on a notion of the ‘natural’ gone awry, which stands in contradiction to his explicit political distancing from ideas of ‘nature’ in favour of the social constructionist concept of the ‘lovemap’. It argues that Money's writing on paraphilia in the 1980s and 1990s, while both prolific and influential for clinical practice, has been ignored by historians and critics who have instead paid attention to his controversial pioneering work on gender identity and sex reassignment. This article considers the treatment of the concept of paraphilia in the work of sexologist John Money (1921–2006). ![]()
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