Medicalising sex damages relationships
Medicine has long been exercising its authority over sexual behaviour
and in an increasingly secular society definitions of what is morally
acceptable now fall to medical science. Hart and Wellings (p 896)
examine the increasingly medical approach to sex, which they say
ignores the social and interpersonal dynamics of relationships. They
argue that the medicalisation of sex has resulted in the use of surgery
and drugs to enhance sexual pleasure and that our obsession with sexual
gratification increases expectations and feelings of inadequacy.
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