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Orgasm, Inc.
A new documentary looking at Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).
Just in time for all you cupids, Orgasm, Inc. opens today and explores the strange science of female pleasure, and in the process reveals the often-warped mentality of our pharmaceutical and medical industries.
The documentary opens when filmmaker Liz Canner is hired by pharmaceutical company Vivus to edit erotic videos to be used in a drug trial. It is explained to her that they are developing a drug that will be the first FDA approved “Viagra” for women that will treat a new “disease” called Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).
And this is where this film’s rubber hits the road. As the film shows, there’s no clear definition of FSD, which then anyone can conclude is there a problem that really needs to be treated or is it just a ‘condition’ that exists? Yet the film successfully spotlights examples where the drug companies are creating and defining this disease therefore justifying a drug to treat it.
After being hired, Canner soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with other medical and pharmaceutical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of profit.
Over the course of nine years, Canner follows pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufactures who are racing to be the first to win FDA approval for their product –be it pill, patch, nose spray- yes, nose spray. The promised cure: ‘normal’ sexual function and orgasm. The prize: billions of dollars in profits.
At one point in the film, we watch a female subject who has reached a point that she is willing to test a new device, the Orgasmtron. They implant an electrode up her spine so that she will be able to use a remote control to stimulate an orgasm.
As the film winds down, drug companies and manufactures begin to spend millions on marketing a cure and the ‘disease’, Orgasm Inc provides an antidote to the marketing and scientific distortion, and will help to protect women from being deceived into undergoing unnecessary and possibly unsafe medical treatments. It will simply change the way you think about sex.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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