The Sexual Performance Perfection Industry and the Medicalization of Male Sexuality
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Family Journal
- Vol. 9 (3) , 337-340
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480701093015
Abstract
Proponents of new medical technology and pharmacology have succeeded in convincing ever-growing numbers of individuals of the necessity of treating men with sexual dysfunction from a purely medical perspective. This article presents arguments for the deleterious effects of this medicalization of male sexuality. It is asserted that endorsement of what the author has labeled the sexual performance perfection industry paradigm obscures the more insidious and pervasive social and psychological causes of sexual distress.Keywords
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