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.

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