Orgasm Inc. (2009) on Netflix
NR20091h 13mDocumentary
A filmmaker signs on to edit erotic videos for a drug trial. The pharmaceutical company behind it is racing to win approval for the first Viagra for women.
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Plot summary
The job is editing erotic videos for a drug trial at a pharmaceutical company. That company hopes its drug will be the first Viagra approved for women, for a condition it calls female sexual dysfunction, and it lets the filmmaker shoot its work in general. She starts a documentary of her own, first imagining a movie about science and pleasure. Her camera follows the trial's clinical research and the company's executives, and it turns to physicians and sex therapists. The film also looks at the marketing campaigns built around the new diagnosis and at the claims the medical industry makes about healthy female sexuality.
Cast
- Andrilla Chakrabarti
- Nan Cochran
- Kim Airsas Herself - Owner, Grand Opening
- Susan Bennettas Herself - Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Laura Bermanas Herself - Sex Therapist
- Elizabeth Canneras Herself - Narrator (as Liz Canner)
- Darby Stephensas Herself - Manager of Clinical Research, Vivus
- Virgil Placeas Himself - Founder, Vivus
- Leland Wilsonas Himself - President & CEO, Vivus
- Craig Petersonas Himself - Director of Clinical Research, Vivus
- Ray Moynihanas Himself - Visiting Editor, The British Medical Journal
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- Stuart Meloyas Himself - Orgasmatron Inventor
- Charlettaas Herself - Clinical Trial Test Subject
- Leonore Tieferas Herself - Sex Therapist
- Meika Loeas Herself - Professor of Sociology, Colgate University
- Carol Queenas Herself - Founder & Curator, Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum
- Neyla Sloulkaas Herself - Patient Concierge, The Berman Center
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Orgasm Inc. (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Liz Canner got inside the pharmaceutical industry by taking a job editing erotic movies for a drug trial at Vivus, which hoped its drug would be the first FDA-approved Viagra for women, treating a new disease called female sexual dysfunction. She gained permission to film the company's work for her own documentary.
- Orgasm Inc. was covered in hundreds of articles and blogs and dozens of TV and radio programs worldwide, and the article credits that attention with raising questions about drug companies creating and marketing diseases and with protecting millions of women from being misled about female sexual dysfunction.
