Disorders of desire: sexuality and gender in modern American sexology

Disorders of Desire is the only book to tell the story of the development and impact of sexology-the scientific study of sex-in the United States. In this era of sex scandals, culture wars, ""Sex in the City,"" and new sexual enhancement technologies (like erectile dysfunction drugs), its critique of sexology is even more relevant than it was when the book was first published in 1990. This revised and expanded edition features new chapters addressing: The diagnosis of ""sex addiction""in the 1970s and its social and political implications

Emergence of scientific sexology -- Toward a "value-free" science of sex : the Kinsey reports -- Science, medicine, and a market -- -- Sexology at a crossroad : consolidation and confusion -- The humanistic theme in sexology -- Sexual science and sexual politics -- Conflict and accommodation : who defines sexuality? -- Practice of scientific sexology : sex therapy and gender research -- Repairing the conjugal bed : the clinical practice of modern sex therapy -- Regulated passions : the invention of inhibited sexual desire and sex addiction -- Boys will be girls : contemporary research on gender

Disorders of Desire is the only book to tell the story of the development and impact of sexology—the scientific study of sex—in the United States. In this era of sex scandals, culture wars, "Sex in the City," and new sexual enhancement technologies (like erectile dysfunction drugs), its critique of sexology is even more relevant than it was when the book was first published in 1990. This revised and expanded edition features new chapters addressing: The diagnosis of "sex addiction"in the 1970s and its social and political implications. New developmen