John Money

“The child's own body is the first and most important toy.”

“In the long run, it is easier to change the body than to change the mind.”

“A gender identity is the private experience of a gender role, and a gender role is the public expression of a gender identity.”

“Gender identity is the sameness, unity, and persistence of one's individuality as male, female, or ambivalent.”

“The term 'gender role' appears in the popular vernacular to signify the set of things a person does to disclose himself or herself as boy or man, girl or woman.”

“Anatomy is not destiny in the establishment of gender identity.”

“Lovemaps are the templates in the mind/brain that depict an individual's idealized lover and the idealized program of sexual and erotic activity.”

“Nature has ordained that sexual behavior is a pair-bond.”

“There is a critical period in development, a postnatal period, for the establishment of gender identity.”

“The primary and most crucial variables in the establishment of a masculine or feminine gender identity are the experiences of being reared as a boy or a girl.”

“Vandalism is the lovemap gone wrong.”

“The paraphilias... are lovemaps gone awry.”

“Hermaphroditism is a state of being in which the criteria of male and female are mixed in the same person.”

“The erotic is not a thing to be ashamed of. It is a part of our humanity.”