“Orgasm, Inc.” is the new documentary about the pharmaceutical industry’s rush to make a “female Viagra”, a drug that ends “female sexual dysfunction”, formerly known as frigidity. It’s turning heads wherever it goes, but we found ten things about it you may not know.
10. This may be director Liz Canner’s first feature length film, but it’s not her first documentary. Canner has a twenty-year career as a documentarian, centered around human rights. You’ve probably seen her work on PBS or cable, mostly as a producer.
9. Canner first became involved with the FSD drug race through pornography: she took a job editing erotic videos for women to watch to gauge their arousal. Not bad work if you can get it, we guess.
8. “Orgasm, Inc.” has been screening in various film festivals, medical conferences, and human rights seminars since 2009, but only got a release in theaters last week, courtesy of First Run Features.
7. The symptoms of female sexual dysfunction are: persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response or desire. Yep, that’s it. Canner couldn’t find a more specific definition, but she did find a lot of evidence that everybody trying to “cure” it doesn’t want one.
6. One of the key problems is the word “orgasm” has medical, endocrinological, psychological and neurological definitions. Doctors aren’t sure if orgasms from stimulating the g-spot are, medically speaking, orgasms, but psychologically speaking, they’re definitely orgasms. So, if you’re making a drug for women to orgasm…what kind of orgasm are you looking for?
5. One of the biggest problems with the female orgasm is sex education: “Orgasm, Inc.” shows that women being unable to orgasm from vaginal intercourse is perfectly normal, but most women aren’t aware of that and think it’s a medical problem. That’s because “vaginal intercourse” was created by Freud, and might be a myth: the clitoris is the key source of orgasm, and it can extend into the walls of the vagina (thus creating the G-spot) and back to the anus. Then there’s the “breast orgasm”; some women can orgasm just from their breasts, possibly due to hormones created by fondling them.
4. The big problem, in terms of measuring orgasm medically, is that women don’t orgasm like men. In fact, it’s so different, even sixty years ago, the female orgasm wasn’t considered to actually exist by some doctors. This is a problem that keeps coming up in “Orgasm, Inc.”; after all, male orgasms are a lot more measurable.
3. The most common type of orgasm is the clitoral orgasm. Which is kind of a problem for some of Canner’s subjects, as they’re not sure where, precisely, their clitoris is.
2. Creepiest method Canner came across to solve this “problem”: plastic surgery on the vagina.
1. Canner’s biggest discovery: female sexual dysfunction may not even actually exist. The female orgasm isn’t well-understood, even now, mostly because nobody’s bothered to look into it. Even drugs that treat male sexual problems aren’t really worth it: Viagra can’t make you eat better, reverse the aging process, or get rid of all the stress in your life. People just have no sense of what’s medically normal…which makes sense, as Canner shows, sometimes doctors don’t know either.
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