Taking on FSD and the Pharmaceutical Companies – Orgasm Inc.

Orgasm Inc. is a documentary by Liz Canner focusing on the recent “discovery” of FSD or Female Sexual Dysfunction. We know that pills such as Viagra can help men with erectile dysfunction. And we also know that the prescription drug industry is big, profitable business. Just how big you might wonder? According to the documentary “The pharmaceutical industry is the third most profitable in the world”. But it is also extremely profitable in America as “The USA makes up just 5% of the world’s population but it accounts for 42% of the world’s spending on prescription drugs”.

Canner explores how pharmaceutical companies scrambling to make a huge profit by telling women that they indeed are abnormal frame FSD as a disorder, even though there are no actual medical discoveries that point to FSD as a disorder. In fact, we find out that all initial meetings discussing FSD were sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and that pharmaceutical companies have made it their plight to help define and discover FSD.

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Gandhi’s birth control of choice

I recently read an article about the correspondence and meeting between two of the most independent thinkers of the 20th Century, Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi. The two activists met in 1936 when Sanger traveled to India to speak with Gandhi about birth control. By that time Sanger was advocating internationally for artificial contraceptives and sought to make Gandhi an ally.

Despite the fact that the movement was gaining popularity in a society with a serious poverty crisis, Gandhi was an outspoken critic of artificial birth control. His general attitude was that

“Persons who use contraceptives will never learn the value of self-restraint. They will not need it. Self-indulgence with contraceptives may prevent the coming of children but will sap the vitality of both men and women, perhaps more of men than of women. It is unmanly to refuse battle with the devil.”

Sanger, on the other hand, once told her granddaughter that “for intercourse, I’d say three times a day was about right.” (Go girl!) [Read more...]

Egyptian Politicians Seek Ban on ‘Fake Virgin Kit’

Gigimo Artificial Hymen KitConservative Egyptian Lawmakers have called for an immediate ban on imports of Chinese ‘artificial virginity’ kits. A radio talk host in Egypt broadcasted an arabic translation of a Chinese advertisement for the Artificial Virginity Hymen, opening the floodgates for fear and increased paranoia about women’s sexuality.

The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit is distributed by a Chinese company called Gigimo. This $30 product is intended to not only assist women in “recreating” their own experience of virginity (whatever that means), but also for the purpose of convincing their husbands of their purity. The product works by releasing a blood like substance when inserted and broken. [Read more...]