In Selling Sickness, Ray Moynihan exposed the truth behind the way the pharmaceutical companies manipulate illness. In Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals he exposes the creation of a new 'disease', female sexual dysfunction, which the international pharmaceutical industry is claiming affects one in every two women. It is this 'disease' the industry plans to unleash with a multi-million dollar marketing effort around the world to reap in billions and billions of dollars of profit.
With compelling clarity, this corporate thriller takes us inside the corridors of medical power from Paris to Melbourne to Manhattan to witness the birth of this controversial new disorder. The characters are the doctors, the psychologists and the marketing men and women who work with Big Pharma, and the critics who argue this is a misleading and dangerous distraction from the real problems in sexual relationships. With a narrative set against the great cultural contradictions of our time - increasing sexual liberation coupled with seemingly increasing sexual anxiety - Ray Moynihan draws on extensive research and interviews around the world to explore what's really happening in the decade of Viagra and why the pharmaceutical industry wants to exploit this anxiety in women.
