Electric dipole moments in the generic supersymmetric standard model

The generic supersymmetric standard model is a model built from a supersymmetrized standard model field spectrum and the gauge symmetries only. The popular minimal supersymmetric standard model differs from the generic version in having R parity imposed by hand. We review an efficient formulation of the model and some of the recently obtained interesting phenomenological features, focusing on one-loop contributions to fermion electric dipole moments.