Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation: in sickness and in health.

Graham Hart ; Kaye Wellings ORCID logo ; (2002) Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation: in sickness and in health. BMJ, 324 (7342). pp. 896-900. ISSN 1468-5833 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.896
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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.
Item Type Article
Keywords Dysfunction, Adult, Aged, Attitude, Coitus, Female, Human, Life Style, Male, Middle Age, Sex Behavior, Sexual Abstinence, Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological, Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, prevention & control
ISI 175052200028
Date Deposited 17 Oct 2011 22:22

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