"abnormal desire" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a desire that is unusual, unexpected, and uncharacteristic of a person or situation. For example, "The sudden, abnormal desire to go skydiving caused her friends to worry."
Michael First, the editor of the two most recent editions of the D.S.M., told me that there is no scientific research establishing that abnormal desires are any harder to control than normal ones.
What gets these young adults into trouble with the law "is not abnormal sexual desires," Mahoney writes, "but their tendency to express or pursue normal interests in a manner outside social conventions".
Up until last week, openly transgender members of the military could be "medically disqualified" under guidance from the military's Standards for Military Fitness that listed "transsexualism" as a form of "paraphilia" – a word that describes abnormal sexual desires typically involving dangerous activities.
Therapeutic interventions such as radiation, drug and gene therapy intend to alter gene expressions from an undesired state or abnormal state to a desired or normal state.
For all their brutality, they were driven by a very human desire: to "normalize abnormal situations and to recapture lost worlds".
Ablation is contraindicated in women with undiagnosed abnormal bleeding and those who desire future fertility [1].
Our evidence is thus consistent with other studies in highlighting the OFC as a cortical area whose healthy functioning correlates with states of desire and whose abnormal physiology may lead to a loss of motivation and desire, of which the general loss of the ability to experience pleasure and the specific loss of sexual desire (i.e. libido) are key symptoms.
The ability to prune and normalize this abnormal vasculature is a highly desired quality in any anti-angiogenic treatment of interest [ 10, 33].
Women who exhibited a greater sexual drive than their husbands, or not enough desire, were seen as abnormal or deviant.
This may represent a paradoxical pathology where the desire for food is abnormally amplified because of abnormal dietary restrictions and longstanding starvation, resulting in increasingly relentless efforts to gather food.
