Orgasm Inc | Big Pharma Targets Curing Women

via LunaEoRimmel’s Flickr PhotostreamLiz Canner’s latest documentary “Orgasm, Inc.” examines how drug companies cater to women’s sexual health problems. Big Pharma, Canner posits, might have had a hand in creating the illness in the first place.

Women’s sexual dysfunction is a broadly-defined concept. For that reason, I’ll skip the official statistics and encourage you to take a peak at Canner’s new documentary.

Orgasm Inc: An Early Look

I regard sexual dysfunction as a real problem for women, because loss of libido is a terrible challenge for women, men, marriages and relationships.

The challenge comes with the often psychological nature of flagging libidos. Depression among American women is of epic proportions — based on the prescriptions written each year — and we know that the pills women take are libido killers.

Stress is another real but also ambiguous libido killer. So is sexual guilt.

Just as the nature of female sexual desire is more complex than men’s, the industry evolving to diagnose and treat women’s sexuality — and women’s health issues generally — is vast, interconnected, and one capable of convincing women that they are suffering sexual dysfunction, without attacking the real problems that cause it.

A certain loss of libido is normal, during various life stages. I am a professional who believes that it’s in the health and wellbeing interests of women to embrace an active sexuality. But we’re seeing an awful lot of dead ends out there, strategies, treatments and endless advice that don’t solve the problem, and sometimes convince women that they are sick and in need of treatment, when they’re not.

The treatment of women’s sexuality has become big business. And we’ve basically gotten nowhere, as I understand the facts.  Anne