Best Kept Secret?A Labor Orgasm is basically how it sounds, while a woman is in the process of giving birth she has an orgasm. The experience is supposed to release endorphins and make the labor a more enjoyable experience.
Here is the ABC news video link and the TIMES online article link
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I agree, our ability to take back the birthing experience goes hand in hand with complete sexual health/reproductive freedom.
Still...I'm glad I'm not having kids! Despite great leaps and bounds in the feminist/woman centered arena of childbirth, I still don't want to do it! :D
While I whole-heartedly support women regaining control of reproduction and the birth process, I am also appreciative of the advances in medical technology that has allowed fewer women to die during childbirth. Having had my 4 children via cesarean section in hospitals (my first pregnancy was full term twins), we would not be alive without the intervention of the medical establishment.
Wow! This is AMAZING! Thank you so much for posting this video. Anyone interested in these topics should also check out "The Business of Being Born."
Ecstasy means by definition "outside-of-itself" expanded spiritual awareness. The thought of something beyond self...from a molecular level, to genes, cells, organism, society,etc. This begins as simple as thinking beyond the immediate self like when an animal buries its food..for its own future "self". Then it progresses to compassion for something barely beyond the self....a twin...one's newborn baby.
I read somewhere that "washing your baby can be easier and feel more personal than washing your own foot".
It seems all birth should be euphoric, orgasmic, why else would we bother?
Then again, some creatures enter the world by consuming the mother from the inside out, ...that can't be fun!
Its interesting too that these kinds of water births can result in faster development, more brain mass and ambidexterity.
Miriam Perez of feministing.com and radicaldoula.com had a great blog about this issue
http://radicaldoula.com/2007/02/28/the-vagina-monologues-and-orgasmic-birth/
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