John Money's "Chronophilia" Untimely Sex between Philias and Phylisms
Pursuing a number of fashionable but irredeemably divergent scientific tangents, John Money's 1980s through 1990s work contains a protracted but ill fated attempt to capture erotic age orientation in broader than strictly forensic psychiatric frames. Money bemoaned "medicalization" and pseudo science but also advanced a speculative, grand opponent process theory for what he called "the paraphilias" If Money's ad hoc term and taxonomical concept of "chronophilia" has remained unassimilable both culturally and (until very recently) academically, this historical outcome is not without significance and invites pondering by any contemporary practitioner burdened by the inheritance of the nineteenth century medicalization of untimely sex Money was struggling to make