Orgasm Inc.: Search for the Female Viagra

Liz Canner , a 42-year-old filmmaker from Vermont, was emotionally exhausted from making the wrenching documentaries that had so far defined her career: police brutality, world poverty and genocide. "I was getting depressed about the human condition," she said. 'I watched the same violent footage over and over again and started to have nightmares. I thought, 'I've got to do something on pleasure.'" So in 2002, Canner took a job with the California-based pharmaceutical company Vivus, helping...Full Story