The Dartmouth | Sarah Frostenson | May 18, 2009
Over 40 percent of women suffer from female sexual dysfunction, or FSD.
At least that's the statistic put forward by many pharmaceutical companies and some of America's largest advertising agencies, according to documentary filmmaker Liz Canner, the Dartmouth Center for Women and Gender's 2009 Visionary-in-Residence.
"I kept hearing the number 43 percent, 43 percent, being quoted as the number of women affected by FSD," Canner said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "But I was suspicious."
For the last nine years, Canner has committed herself to investigating the murky details of female sexual health. Her film, "Orgasm, Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure," is the culmination of her investigation, during which she learned about the commodification of female sexual health and the wide-scale marketing of drugs as the panacea for FSD.
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