experience, and there is something vaguely erotic about the pushing
part (particularly if you like things to be a bit _intense_), there
wasn't much erotic about the sitting around puking my guts out,
waiting to get to the pushing part part. But, to each their own, eh?
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:00:32 -0400, S. Isaac Dealey wrote:
> > Second - I think that even in most non-modern cultures
> > few, if any, women expect childbirth to be pain-free.
> > What they do expect is that it is a rite of passage
> > that they are capable of enduring. And, if you're
> > mentally prepared, it's really not that horrific
> > (speaking as someone who went through 42 hours of
> > labor with no epidural).
>
> I never meant to imply it was common, but it has been known to happen
> for women who are prepared for and expect painless birth. Though I
> gather that by and large, your description does depict the norm (and I
> see where my verbage might have seemed a bit zealous. :P ) Though when
> my ex was pregnant with our 2nd daughter, she was also reading a lot
> of birth erotica. It sounds really bizarre to most women particularly
> in our culture where hospital birth horror stories tends to become the
> women's equivalent of a phalus-sizing contest. Nonetheless there are a
> good number of women who write about having not just a powerful right
> of passage, but in some cases the most powerful orgasmic experiences
> of their lives while givin birth. Although not always painlessly. Of
> course every woman is different.
>
>
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