Orgasm Inc.

Orgasm Inc.

Release Date

2011

Director

  • Elizabeth Canner

Cast

  • Elizabeth Canner
  • Darby Stephens
  • Virgil Place

Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women

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 (FSD). 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.

Past Programs

2016

There's a Pill for That: The Medicalization of Sex

Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN