Film and Panel Discussion: Orgasm Inc. (Vancouver)
Printer-friendly version7:30 pm, Thursday, February 9, Royal Bank, Cinema UBC Vancouver Campus
Seats are limited. To guarantee a seat, please RSVP to OrgasmIncScreening@gmail.com
In Orgasm Inc, filmmaker Liz Canner uncovers a plot – would the pharmaceutical industry take advantage of women’s pursuit of pleasure in their pursuit of billion-dollar profits? The film presents a powerful look inside the medical industry and the way it’s reshaping our ideas of health, illness, desire and...orgasm.
Followed by a Panel Discussion moderated by Dr. Joy Johnson, CIHR Institute of Gender and Health, featuring Dr. Lori Brotto, UBC Dept. of ob/gyn, Dr. Jeannie Shoveller, UBC School of Population & Public Health, and Dr. Thea Cacchioni, University of Victoria Women’s Studies.
And for more on this film and the issues it deals with, read an interview with Orgasm Inc. filmmaker Liz Canner. Blogger Tamara McClintock Greenberg makes some interesting comments about women and hysteria and the history of pathologizing women's health: Orgasm Inc.: Filmmaker Liz Canner on Women and the Orgasm Industry
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