The diagnosis of Androgenic Deficiency of the Aging Male and the paths of male sexual desire

Abstract

This article discusses the diagnosis of Androgenic Deficiency of the Aging Male (ADAM) and the controversies and disputes over it, based on the re-medicalization of sexuality. The analysis is based on interviews with urologists and endocrinologists, and the different approaches of these two medical specialties elucidate divergent conceptions of body and sexuality present in the biomedical knowledge, and the struggle for hegemony in the scientific field. By comparing the meanings attributed to ADAM and to another male sexual dysfunction, the Erectile Dysfunction (ED), we intend to reflect about the difficulties inherent in the biological reduction of sexuality and the reiteration of gender norms in the medical discourse concerning the male body and sexuality.

Keywords

• DAEM
• Andropausa
• Medicalização
• Sexualidade Masculina.