Orgasm, Inc.

In the shocking and hilarious documentary Orgasm Inc., 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 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.

Along with drug company CEOs, field testers, and number crunchers, she encounters doctors, scientists and psychiatrists who are resisting the pharmaceutical industry’s notion that sexual dissatisfaction is a “disease” that needs to be treated with a drug.  As the film delves deeper, it reveals that many of the “treatments” for FSD have potentially dangerous and life-threatening side effects, including genital mutilation, breast cancer, and dementia.

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.  West Coast Premiere.