John Money Quotes

• If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.

  John Money

  Boys, Men, Twenties

  Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia interview, Vol. II, nr 3 (p. 5), 1991.

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• Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

  John Money

  Tolerance, Reason, Social

  "Homosexuality: Bipotenitality, Terminology, and History" by John Money,

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• Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

  John Money

  Sports, Long, May

  John Money (1994). “Reinterpreting the Unspeakable: Human Sexuality 2000: The Complete Interviewer and Clinical Biographer, Exigency Theory, and Sexology for the Third Millennium”, Burns & Oates

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• It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

  John Money

  School, Years, Jail

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