| 05/27/2010 | ||
| 6:30 PM |
Location: Walter Reade Theater, 65th Streeet near Amsterdam Avenue map
When filmmaker Liz Canner took a job editing erotic videos for a pharmaceutical company’s drug trials, she was permitted to film the company for her own documentary. Her employer was trying to develop the first Viagra drug for women to treat a brand-new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). But are her employer and other medical companies actually taking advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion-dollar profits? 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, and desire.
Info at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s website
Tags: documentary, pharmaceutical, research, sexuality, women
