Filmmaker Liz Canner has devoted the last nine years of her life to orgasms -- and her new film "Orgasm, Inc.," explores women's sexual-health problems and how the drug industry may be perpetuating them.
Why We Love Her: Canner was originally hired by the pharmaceutical company Vivus to create a video on Alista, a female stimulant cream.
Though she planned on using what she'd filmed as a documentary on female pleasure, she instead found herself asking questions about the drugs and devices the pharmaceutical companies produce to "cure" sexual problems in women.
Canner was inspired to create "Orgasm" in part by her own female sexual dysfunction, or FSD. The film delves into the diagnosis and treatment process and even shows Canner going for a $1,500 assessment at the Berman Center, a private clinical facility in Chicago founded by sexual-health expert Laura Berman.
The research won't stop with the film, however. Canner and Xenia Markowitto, director of the Center for Women and Gender at Dartmouth University, where the filmmaker was the 2009 Visionary in Residence, are organizing SheBop, a group that will use "Orgasm, Inc." to improve women's sexual health.
Quote: "I think the film is more of an exposé on how the pharmaceutical industry works," Canner said. "It's more how it's become normal for drug companies to be involved with developing diseases. It's legal and we need to look at that and how it's changing people's ideas of health and illness."
Click here to watch a clip from the film.













