SOC 445 Chapter Notes - Chapter Irvine, Janice - Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction : Sexual Addiction, Premature Ejaculation, The Birth Of The Clinic

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

Document Summary

Irvine, janice - regulated passions: the invention of inhibited sexual desire and sexual addiction. In popular culture, there are debates over the nature and the limits of sexual desire. Constructs the social culture of sexuality: social product infused with a set of meanings. Sex is organized through regulation and definition (= the construction of categories) Diseases are artifacts with social history and social practice. A range of socioeconomic changes prompted a commercialized sexuality in which sex is increasingly privileged as fundamental to individual identity and happiness. The medical profession usurped moral and religious authority in the area of sexuality. The construction of disease categories entails a complex set of negotiations among professionals, the general public, and affected individuals. The idea of being addicted to sex emerged in the addiction. They mirror the invention of two diagnostic categories. { both exist in a discursive field with apparatuses such as religious texts, legal and educational practises, medical definitions, and social artifacts.