Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we women could have an orgasm each time we get laid? What if a pill, a patch, or a nose spray could give us a hand? After all, we already take pills to grow hair, get rid of unsightly wrinkles and fight shyness, so why not treating our “female sexual disorders” (FSD)? But it is when the pharmaceutical industry came up with the eerily high figure of 43% of women allegedly suffering from FSD that Liz Canner started suspecting something dubious about the medical companies’ deep motives. She spent almost a decade investigating the patterns of pharmaceutical industry work on female desire. Her documentary Orgasm Inc. reveals that companies might be trying to take advantage of women and potentially endanger their health, in pursuit of billion dollar profits rather than well-balanced and fulfilling sex lives…
Liz Canner handles her subject with subtlety, wit and a genuine commitment to a better and more comprehensive sex education. The distress of women quite ready for a vagina-job in their quest for pleasure surfaces but is always handled with delicacy and humor. Orgasm Inc. reveals the greed and hypocrisy of pharmaceutical companies and the whole process of “corporate creation of a disease” while bitterly hinting at the insanity of a society that defines norms of behavior and tries to correct any deviation from these norms with pills. But don’t let yourself be fooled, Orgasm Inc. is not another angry feminist rant! Hilarious and educational, it is really worth watching, and it features, among others, a dildos museum and a giant velvet female sex-shaped pillow.
If this review is not arousing enough
Orgasm Inc. is set to release on February 11th.
-Emma Roth
Below is Emma’s interview with director Liz Canner:
