ABSTRACT
As a young boy, Dr. Knafo’s patient Mark developed a fascination with maps. He played the role of navigator when his family went on trips, proud and happy to know where he was and where he was going. To know the map in detail was to know the vast spaces of the world, its lines of travel and points of connection. In his early teen years he searched out cities with suggestive names: Intercourse, Pennsylvania; Buttzville, New Jersey; Big Knob, Kentucky; Climax, Michigan; Spread Eagle, Newfoundland; Busti, New York; and Beaver Lick, Kentucky. Eventually, he began to masturbate while looking at maps, excited by his mastery of their legends, scales, latitudes, longitudes, and time zones. The key to his sexual excitement was in the body of the world. He, one of the vast billions walking the planet, small and seemingly insignificant, could embrace through his knowledge of place the entirety of humanity’s home. And that turned him on.
