Preface : testifying at the US Food and Drug Administration -- Introduction : the labour of love in the sexual pharmaceutical era -- The rise and decline of big pharma's "sexual revolution" -- Treating women's sexual pain : biomedicalized, demedicalized, and do-it-yourself approaches -- The limits of normative heterosex -- Sex work : a labour of love -- Refusing heteronormative sex work -- A woman's work is never done -- Epilogue : the sexual pharmaceutical industry and its discontents
Summary
Cacchioni moves beyond the search for a sexual pharmaceutical drug for women to ask a broader question: how does the medicalization of female sexuality already affect women's lives?