Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences http://www.jebas.org ISSN No. 2320 – 8694 Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences, December - 2022; Volume – 10(6) page 1241 – 1252 Medicalization of sexuality and sexual health: A perspective review Rajat Goyal 1* , Deepak Chandran 2 , Kajal Garg 3 , Pran Mohankumar 4 , Sumeet Gupta 1 , Rupesh K. Gautam 5 , Hitesh Chopra 6 , Kuldeep Dhama 7* 1 MM College of Pharmacy, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana-Ambala, India-133207 2 Department of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Amrita School of Agricultural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India–642109 3 SD (PG) College Panipat, Haryana, India-132103 4 School of Agricultural Sciences, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India-641114 5 Department of Pharmacology, Indore Institute of Pharmacy, IIST Campus, Indore, India–453331 6 Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Punjab, India-140401 7 Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India–243122 Received – November 16, 2022; Revision – December 20, 2022; Accepted – December 28, 2022 Available Online – December 31, 2022 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18006/2022.10(6).1241.1252 ABSTRACT Sexuality has become a medical issue in the context of aging due to a variety of aspects, such as growing life expectancy, an optimistic societal paradigm that indorses sexuality as significant for the superiority of life with age, and the medicalization of sexuality with the emergence of remedial medicines to extravagance sexual dysfunction. At any age, a reduction in the desire for sexual activity or inadequate performance of sexual intercourse is considered atypical and requires a medicinal treatment response. However, despite concerns that this is leading to an unhealthy obsession with sexuality from a medical perspective, this line of thinking is likely to continue. In this context, people can identify and take advantage of sexual problems. Sexual desire and performance are affected by normal physiological changes associated with aging in both genders. Medical experts must understand these changes to optimize sexual functioning in older patients. Sexual health can only be improved by addressing both sexual rights and enjoyment, even in the current politically charged context. Through legislation, programming, and lobbying, we may all work to enhance health, happiness, and quality of life by fostering more positive associations between sexual health, sexual rights, and sexual pleasure. This calls for not just a * Corresponding author KEYWORDS Aging Sexuality Sexual Health Medicalization Heterosexuality Sexual dysfunction E-mail: rajatgoyal338@gmail.com (Rajat Goyal); kdhama@rediffmail.com (Kuldeep Dhama) Peer review under responsibility of Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences. All the articles published by Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Based on a work at www.jebas.org. Production and Hosting by Horizon Publisher India [HPI] (http://www.horizonpublisherindia.in/). All rights reserved.