[1] The band was created in 1988[1] by Miguel Barriga, Iván Briceño, Samuel Gallardo, Juan "Cordero" Paredes, Vicente Aguilera, Alberto Larraín and Alexi Cárdenas during final years of the Pinochet regime, all members were students of Universidad Austral de Chile at time.
The band took name after a show presented by Miguel Barriga at the universities Cine Club where the tense atmosphere of the Chilean national plebiscite of 1988 was parodied.
By 1992 Sexual Democracia reached major exposition when it performed in Viña del Mar International Song Festival.
After that the band evolved to a more Latin-American style leaving behind much of its Chilean lyrics, expression of this is the cumbia song "Macondo".
[citation needed] A remix of their song "Regionalización" is played in the home matches of the basketball team Deportes Valdivia.