Orgasm Inc.: Film Analysis

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Those question and the ideology so-called unsimulated sex scene tickled my curiosity to having a look on using sexual intercourse in films in terms of making a cinema as

It is generally accepted that Female Orgasmic Disorder affects about 25% of all women in North America (APA, 2013; Ojomu, Thatcher, & Obadofin, 2007; Tracey, 2006). Attempts to account for cultural factors produce a much broader rate of occurrence, varying from 10% to 42% (APA, 2013). Recent studies indicate orgasmic disorder rates of 43% among Turkish women, 37% among Iranians, 31% among Chinese, 42% in Southeast Asia, and 55% in western Africa (Ojomu et al., 2007; APA 2013). About 10% of all?women experience lifelong anorgasmia (APA,

An overarching theme in the 19th century was the ideology of passionlessness. This claimed that women were incapable of experiencing sexual pleasure, and had no sexual desire. It was prevalent throughout the early 19th century, but middle class reformers shifted this view in the 1830s. Male lecturers used to only give men talks about their own sexual bodies, but the reform was headed by these lecturers as well. They began to speak about woman’s sexual bodies, emphasizing that women have as much sexual desire as men, and could achieve orgasm through hetrosexual sex. Women from the middle class, and lower middle class, attended these lectures to gather information on their own bodies. 19th century women did not know about their own bodies as they did in the past, which attracted women to these lectures, in an attempt to re-obtain this held knowledge. The popularity of these lectures not only caused a reform against the ideology of passionlessness, but

At times, some of the sexual problems for men or even women can be very discomforting that can make their lives somewhat complicated to attain a healthy relationship. “Men who experience lack of erections tend to consider themselves less masculine than other men (Thompson & Barnes, 2013, pg 432). Having erectile dysfunction or even premature ejaculation that last for a few seconds can decrease the sexual desire from their partner. “Twenty two percent of men have experienced the issue premature ejaculation” (Crooks & Bauer, 2014). Female’s haves several, but the most common that I’ve noticed in the readings were Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD), which is a condition in women which can be repetitive inabilities and difficult to reach an orgasm

The film I will be evaluating is Nymphomaniac a sprawling two-part sex drama that blurs the line between art and porn. It follows a sex addict named Joe as she’s found battered in an alleyway by an older bachelor named Seligman. In explaining how she came to be in such a condition, flashback scenes unfold in chapters introduced by snapping witty dialogue between Joe and Seligman. It begins with Joe throughout her teenage years, when she first begins to discover her insatiable sexual appetite. Then through her adult life as she is pushed out of normal society. The film whips through a wide range of topics, such as gender role conformity, consent, and, metal dysfunction.

The body is both a biological and a social being. The biology is trying to define what is “normal” not taking into account the social aspects of the body (Drew, 2003). In terms of FSD biology is trying to decide what is normal in terms of having sex; women achieving the sexual desire. On the other hand, the social aspect of sex is where women have too much work and they just do not want to have sex after a long day (Orgasm Inc.) There are women who are sexually abused and makes it difficult for them to have sex with men belonging to certain cultures and body types (Orgasm Inc.). The women who cannot experience orgasm via intercourse is said to have FSD according to the biological aspect sex (Drew, 2003). Pharmaceutical companies saw an opportunity here and medicalized something which has too many social aspects attached to

The read showed insight into a world dominated my males. Where daddy always knew best, and women were direct to sit quietly and listen and one just might learn something useful. Women in the book, patients, seemed to be lead to the slaughter. Women who needed help and only found themselves medicated or locked up in an institution. Chapter one stated that women were the most population in the psychiatric hospitals. From sexual issues, children behavior problems, husbands with a wondering eye, the women caused all these issues herself, she was the only one to blame. Therefore, going crazy was a “women’s issue”. The true issues would be found once a male psychotherapist could consider his patient’s personal history. He would begin to dig

The sexual dysfunction is not better explained by a nonsexual mental disorder or as a consequence of severe relationship distress or other significant stressors and is not attributable to the effects of a substance/medication or another medical

For many years sexual dysfunction was believed to be physical in nature, and affect woman primarily. Specifically, dysfunction for men took the form of illness-related effects and erectile dysfunction, while female dysfunction was believed to be behavioral in nature, and later, like men, believed to be the product of some physical malady, but still within the attitudinal control of women. Most of the research and literature in the early part of the century deals with sexual dysfunction in women, perhaps viewed as a more pressing concern, or somehow of more import than male

The historical psychological view of the female orgasm has been debated throughout the past on its true value and importance. “But really, it may as well have never been discovered at all because there's still such ignorance when it comes to the female body"(Mosbergen 1). As women were not really as anything except tools of pleasure at the time, their bodies were not examined for important reasons, such, that the clitoris, the main pleasure powerhouse, was not discovered. Rather, the female genitalia was just something to please men and was used to give birth to future generations. The woman’s vagina was seen as a tool for sexual pleasure for men and not for women. The significance of the female orgasm was only achieved through a man’s perspective.

=The film Nymphomaniac, Volumes I and II, directed by Lars von Trier, is the story of Joe, a woman with an insatiable sexual appetite, as told in first person narrative to a man who found her laying beaten in the street. Joe found her sexuality at a young age, frankly recalling, “I discovered my cunt as a two-year-old.” Her sexual exploits that follow, the high volume of lovers per day; her encounters that push the boundaries of societal normalcy; and, the problems that arise within her personal and professional life are poignantly described with shame. While symptoms that Joe exhibits would fall into a diagnosis of sexual disorder not otherwise specified under The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000), in this paper, I will also discuss Kafka’s (2009) proposed and rejected diagnostic criteria for DSM-5 of hypersexual disorder. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10; World Health Organization [WHO], 1992) categorizes Joe’s disorder as excessive sexual drive. Due to the lack of a clear-cut diagnostic term within the DSM-IV-TR and the reluctance of therapists to apply a diagnosis of excessive sexual drive under the ICD-10 (Kingston & Firestone, 2008), for the purposes of this discussion, it is easiest to refer to Joe’s sexual urges and actions as “hypersexual disorder.”

This paper looks to discuss and expand on a news article and two other published articles which report on the lack of Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a sildenafil drug or “female Viagra”. The articles remain constant in the description of what this drug would provide for women. However, they differ in describing the reasons why a drug has not been approved so far. For example, Thielen believes that efforts in the past have been rejected because of concerns relating to the possible side-effects that would come with a drug that would treat female sexual dysfunction (Thielen, 2014). Sifferlin also agrees that there must be more Federal Drug Administration (FDA) research before a pill will be widely accepted (Sifferlin, 2014). Also she feels that female sexual dysfunction is more complex than that with male sexual dysfunction because most cases are due to daily life stressors rather than a biological dysfunction (Thielen, 2014). Dvorak disagrees with this entirely and believes that these generalizations made about women and the reasons for their lack of sexual desire having to do with emotions are because of gender stereotypes and rigid, antiquated gender roles (Dvorak, 2014). This paper examines Dvorak’s claims about gender inequality and how it is affecting the lack of options for women when it comes to treating sexual dysfunction

There isn't one word that will capture a human being’s attention and imagination more, there is nothing more controversial, there is nothing more powerful, there is nothing more imperative. The orgasm has been the singular overarching driving force of consciousness since before antiquity. A sterile interpretation of why conscious beings value orgasm so much in our psyches is that evolutionarily it further incentivizes the natural process of reproduction. But if one examines the profundity of the orgasm on a deeper level, it becomes possible that the reason why the experience of orgasms to be so important to us and why we evolved for it to be so, is our desperate desire to transcend our isolation from eachother. It seems that there is no

participating in an orgy. Midway through the film, low and behold Creepy was seen with the lead character. It is rumored to this day that Creepy had become the king of hotel porn.