In this article the emergence of the categories Inhibited Sexual Desire (IDS), and Sex Addiction within North American sexology is explained as the result of the combination of medical imperatives and knowledge, articulated to individual experiences and demands, as well as to cultural anxieties. In that process the historical, social, and political constitution of the medical and the sexological field is also explored, as well as their differences, changes, cultural mediators, ambivalences, and conflicts.
sexology; sexuality; sexual addiction; Inhibited sexual desire