Orgasm, Inc.: the Strange Science of Female Pleasure (Liz Canner, 2009)

In this shocking and hilarious documentary filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction. Liz gains permission to film the company for her own documentary. Initially she plans to create a movie about science and pleasure but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits. Orgasm Inc. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire -and that ultimate moment: orgasm.

Director, writer and producer: Liz Canner
Cinematography: Liz Canner. Additional photography by Alex Barnett, Angela Alston, Ava Berkofsky, David Rabinowitz, Fawn Yacker, Kate Cone, Kirsten Martin, Matt Bucy, Mick McNeely, Noel Villers and Toshi Hoo
Executive producers: Judith Helfand, Julie Parker Benello, Marc Weiss and Wendy Attinger
Associate producer: Sarah Canner
Editing: Liz Canner, Jeremiah Zagar and Sandra Christie
Sound editor: Tom Paul
Original music: Alex Barnett, Don Glasgo and Stephanie Olmanni
Running time: 78 min
Country: USA
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