CGWS event 'Orgasm Inc' Film screening (80mins) and social evening

Date: 1 March 2012 Time: 7 pm till late

Venue: Gregson Centre, Moor Lane, Lancaster

This is a film screening and social event for the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, which we are holding at the Gregson Centre. It is open to all the community (academic and non-academic). If you want to see the film please contact Ali hanbury to book your free place. Or you can just come along for a social evening with CGWS people and the wider feminist community in Lancaster. Everybody Welcome.

ORGASM INC.The Strange Science of Female Pleasure

"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."- Hot Docs Film Festival

In the shocking and hilarious documentary ORGASM INC., filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. 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 Dysfunction (FSD). Liz gains permission to film the company 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. 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, desire — and that ultimate moment: orgasm.

Upbeat, engaging, enlightening, and provocative,ORGASM INC. will change the way you think about sex.

Event website: http://orgasminc.org/

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Who can attend: Anyone