Editing Lovemap (section)

== History ==
John Money first wrote the word ''lovemap'' in 1980 for an article later published under the title "Pairbonding and [[Limerence]]". Prior to that, Money discussed lovemaps in a precursory form with his students in lectures, employing the term as a replacement for the expression, "an idealized and highly idiosyncratic image."{{sfn|Money|1986|p = xv-xvi}} In a 1997 article in the controversial and non-[[peer reviewed]] journal ''[[Medical Hypotheses]]'', Money revisited  the concept of 'love map' and expanded it to three categories, ''haptoerotic'' (cutaneous), ''morphoerotic'' (visual) and ''gnomoerotic'' (narrative).<ref>{{cite journal | author = Money, J. | year = 1997 | title = Evolutionary sexology: the hypothesis of song and sex | journal = Medical Hypotheses | volume = 48 | issue = 5 | pages = 399–402 | doi=10.1016/s0306-9877(97)90035-9| pmid = 9185125 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

Since its inception, the concept of "love maps", applied to [[interpersonal relationships]], has found some acceptance and is frequently referenced in books about love and sexuality.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} [[Glenn Wilson (psychologist)|Glenn Wilson]] and Chris McLaughlin discussed it in their 2001 book ''The Science of Love''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Wilson, G.D.  |author2=McLaughlin, C.  |name-list-style=amp |title=The Science of Love|location=Great Britain | publisher=Fusion Press|year=2001|isbn=1-901250-54-7}}</ref>