Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Exotic Orientation

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Summary: He is the foremost fraud on this subject.
Review: Contrary to one poster who called Money the foremost thinker on this subject, the reality has proven that Money is the foremost [suspect]. His "groundbreaking" experiment in gender identity has been shown to be a complete fabrication on his part.

While he may be a great theorizer (anyone can concoct a ridiculous and salacious theory), reality has demonstrated that his theories are false.

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Summary: This book should be required reading in high school
Review: John Money explains the many factors that contribute to sexualorientation and sexual preferences. This is a book with profoundimplications for child rearing, contributing to an understanding how sexual difficulties arise. His chapter on lovemaps and paraphilias is excellent! Thank you for the courage to explore the "forbidden" and the "unspeakable." Also see his new book, THE LOVEMAP GUIDEBOOK.

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Summary: Trust this author at your own peril...
Review: John Money is a joke. No REAL dr./scientist would make up ficticious results in case studies! He has lost ALL credibility and is an embarrassment to others in his profession. Save your money!

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Summary: excellent, provocative work
Review: on the formation of gender identity. Money is unquestionably one of the foremost thinkers on human sexuality of the modern era. His project is to ask questions that few dare to ask. Since those questions are about sex and gender identity, it is guaranteed that there will be howls of disagreement with his methods of study and proposed answers. "Gay Straight and In Between" is a very good book to get into the fray, and its insights can have a lot of influence given the current political debates over gay rights. You may not agree with all of its premises (I don't), but since when do we read only to confirm what we already believe?

As for the person who thought the title was insulting to bisexuals, I am surprised--the whole point of that title seems, to me, to point out that much of the world is (happily, healthily, normally) "in between" the poles that usually frame the debate.

Recommended.

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Summary: This man's work lacks any scientific merit--it's all opinion
Review: Please read of this man's (...) in the work of John Colapinto cited above--As Nature Made Him (it is the story of an identical twin whose circumcision was botched, and
Money recommended that he be raised as a girl--this Money "guineau pig" committed suicide last week--age 38, but not before he had many, many negative words for the misguided "work" of Money). Colapinto is his exclusive biographer.
The fact that Money's name remains prominently on the syllabus of many women's study courses is a considerable shame to both fields of psychology and women's studies.
Recommended reading of real scholarship in the area of biological and social determination pertaining to sexual and homosexual behavior: Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan

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Summary: This man's work lacks any scientific merit--it's all opinion
Review: Read "As Nature Made Him" by John Colapinto