Our take: "Orgasm, Inc."

Is this for the money, or the medicine?

Molly Strasburger

Special to Metromix

Too tired, have a headache, not in the mood — women are masters at making up excuses to not have sex. But what if those excuses aren't only excuses; but symptoms?

"Orgasm, Inc." takes a look inside the drug company Vivus; which after several failed attempts continues to try to market a prescription medication for "FSD," or Female Sexual Dysfunction, which was actually declared a disease by the FDA. So-called symptoms include: not being able to achieve orgasm, pain with sexual intercourse, and/or no desire. Liz Canner documents her interviews with everyone from everyday, sexually active women to sex toy experts to the head of Vivus himself. What Canner discovers on her trek is astounding and extremely frightening. Are women who struggle to achieve orgasm in bed really ill? Does not being in the mood mean a woman is diseased? Or are these just commonalities of being female?

This film, despite its very serious topic, is chock-full of humor. Take, for example, when Canner takes a trip to the Antique Vibrator Museum! Yes, it does exist.

Extremely uncomfortable scenes in the film include bloody shot of a woman getting the "Orgasmatraon" implanted in her spine. The "patient" has struggled her entire adult life with not reaching climax when in bed with her husband. Determined to figure out a cure for herself, she agrees to be a guinea pig for the surgery. Does it work? You will have to watch and find out.

We suggest you make this film a girls' night. If your husband or lover finds out some of these female bedroom secrets, he may never believe your headache excuse again. This very honest documentary is not to be missed by any female. It will be a vital forewarning, in case the "pink" Viagra ever hits pharmacies.