Over 40 million women suffer from sexual issues in the US alone. This creates a huge market for patent drug, surgery and product companies. Why is it that this movie is not shown in the US on major media movie channels?
Is it possible that this movie ‘offends’ the monopolies that use TV to push drugs out to the public? It is a fact that drug company advertisements are a major source of revenue for TV outlets. It is a fact that they do not want to threaten their major revenue source.
Is it possible that this movie ‘offends’ the monopolies that use TV to push drugs out to the public? It is a fact that drug company advertisements are a major source of revenue for TV outlets. It is a fact that they do not want to threaten their major revenue source.
Could it be that if this movie were shown on mass media or taught in schools, and women knew the truth, that they would avoid doctors and these ‘new’ orgasm drugs, medical procedures and hyped up medical claims, often based more on rumor than facts or science?
According to Wikipedia; “Orgasm Inc. (2009) is the first feature documentary by award-winning director Liz Canner. It premiered at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival.
In the documentary, filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic movies for a drug trial for apharmaceutical company called Vivus. 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 arousal disorder (FSD).
Liz gains permission to film the company’s work in general 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.
The film continues from Vivus onto the more general question of whether there is a solid scientific foundation to medical industry claims about what constitutes “healthy” female sexuality and whether drugs and surgery are a suitable first-line approach to obtaining it.
The film documents an emerging medical industry intent on convincing as large a market of women as possible that they have medical problems, and that those problems are best solved by expensive and dangerous medical treatments.
Orgasm Inc. is presented as a look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping the public’s lives concerning health, illness, desire, and orgasm.
Release
Orgasm Inc. premiered at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival in 2009. It has shown in over 40 film festivals all over the world, including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
The film has also been broadcasted on national television in Canada, Finland, France, Italy, Brazil, Israel, Spain, Poland, Holland andJapan. The film was picked up by First Run Features who released the movie in cinemas in the U.S. on February 11, 2011.
Critical reception
Since its release in 2009, Orgasm Inc. has received numerous awards, including the Best Feature award at the Vermont International Film Festival, the 2nd Best Feature award at the KOS International Health Film Festival, the Best Documentary Award at the Southeast New England (SENE) Film, Music, and Arts Festival, and the Best Feature Award at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival.
Hot Docs Film Festival called it an “extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company’s fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women — and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry”.
Newsweek said “[Orgasm Inc.] is a desperately needed antidote to all the hype generated by pharmaceutical companies pursuing their holy grail: a female Viagra.”[1]
The Times called it “an extraordinary, revelatory documentary about female desire and the pharmaceutical industry”.
In addition, articles about the movie and quotes from director Liz Canner have appeared internationally in hundreds of articles and blogs and dozens of TV shows and radio programs such as ABC News, Vogue, Newsweek, the Times of London, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC World Service, Public Radio, the LA Times, the Guardian, Cosmopolitan South Africa, Glamour Brazil, etc.
This media attention has helped to raise serious questions about the pharmaceutical industries involvement with creating and marketing diseases. It has also protected millions of women from being misled into believing that they have FSD and they need to be treated with a drug (that could potentially harm them).”
Source; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm_Inc
Orgasm Inc. 40 Million Women Suffer From Sexual Issues; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/03/orgasm-inc-40-million-women-suffer-from.html
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Movie available at http://orgasminc.org/
The medical industry is pushing women’s lack of sex and/or orgasm as a new ‘disease’. Of course this new ‘disease’ needs a surgery, drug or a pill to be ‘treated’. And doctors are the only place to go get treated for this new disease.
Once a patient ends up at the doctor’s office a combination, a cocktail of drugs is ‘prescribed’, in order to increase the chance of orgasm, or increase the chance of having one more episode of sex a month. The cocktail of drugs being used for this new ‘disease’ also have negative side effects, both individually and in combinations.
Meanwhile, underneath everything, the root causes of sexual issues remain, denied, ignored and not addressed.
If you would like to rent the DVD of Orgasm Inc. for an open-to-the public screening on your campus (and you are not a Cinema Club) or you would like to show the documentary outside the USA or Canada, please contact Astrea Media at info@astreamedia.org or call (617) 733-8426, or if you would like to invite the filmmaker, please contact lizcanner@astreamedia.org.
If you would like to present Orgasm Inc. in an open-to-the-public screening in the USA or Canada (and you are not an educational institution or campus group), please contact Paul Marchant at First Run Features – paul@firstrunfeatures.com or call (212) 243-0600 x22.
If your screening is not open to the general public, you can purchase the DVD here.
Please let us know when & where you are holding your screening so we can add it to Orgasm Inc.’s online calendar. We have publicity materials that we can email you to help with outreach. Also, feel free to contact us if you need help finding scholars, therapists, activists or sexperts for a post-screening Q&A.
Orgasm Inc. 40 Million Women Suffer From Sexual Issues; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/03/orgasm-inc-40-million-women-suffer-from.html
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