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- W1998256368 abstract "Religion used to define morally acceptable conduct, then doctors became interested in sexual behaviour. Now we live in a world where celibacy is the new deviance, and surgery and drugs are used to enhance sexual pleasure. Graham Hart and Kaye Wellings reflect on the extent and consequences of the medicalisation of sexual behaviour“Sex survey ruined our wedding,” screamed the front page of the Sun .1 The newspaper reported how a “couple had a furious row and called off their wedding after the bride-to-be revealed their sex secrets in a university survey.” This could be a routine example of how the press uses research on sex to sell papers. This case is more interesting, however, because the groom to be was clearly unhappy with the extent of sexual surveillance, which arguably is a feature of the medicalisation of sexual behaviour in British society. To what extent has there been a medicalisation of sex, and what are the consequences of this?#### Summary pointsMedical authority over sexual behaviour has a long historyIn the 19th century, labels distinguished “perversions” from “acceptable behaviour,” and some doctors invented adverse outcomes of sexual acts to deter the practice of these actsIn the 20th century, disorders previously seen as morally inadmissible became “treatable”The late 20th century saw major changes in sexual attitudes and mores as therapeutic advances removed adverse outcomes of sexual behaviourOur obsession with sexual gratification increases expectations and feelings of inadequacyThe medicalisation of sex has resulted in surgery and drugs being used to enhance sexual pleasureOverly medical approaches to sex ignore the social and interpersonal dynamics of relationships RETURN TO TEXTThe exercise of medical authority over sexual behaviour has a long history. Religion once defined morally acceptable sexual conduct, but in an increasingly secular society, this task fell to medical science. …" @default.
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