{"id":18583,"date":"2009-10-19T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18583"},"modified":"2009-10-19T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:57:23","slug":"orgasm-during-childbirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/orgasm-during-childbirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Orgasm During Childbirth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wandering Yeti posted this link below — we’ve posted the video to the top for maximum visibility. Thank you for the link!<\/p>\n

I am happy to see this concept go from something I’ve thought about and understood for years to something I’m seeing in the external world; I think this is perfectly intuitive. The capacity for pleasure that is distinctly female is associated with a capacity that can be applied during childbirth. However, to be able to relate this idea at all, sexuality needs to be an openly discussed subject rather than a concealed one. And all the emotional material that exists along the same circuitry is involved in the process.<\/p>\n

Orgasm is a subset of the subject of sex, and if the subject of sex is taboo, concealed, denied or held down (as it usually is), then obviously so too will this subject. Betty Dodson and many others have pointed out that the real taboo is on pleasure. This is why pain is so often emphasized: it’s not so embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Just before a close friend of mine went off to deliver her child, I emailed her: “Remember your clitoris!” Which was my way of suggesting: this can be pleasurable, not agony. Our bodies are well designed to do the jobs they are supposed to do. While one of the husbands in the video above compares childbirth to being hit on the head with a hammer, this view is far removed from the idea that giving birth is natural, something that happens to many women and for which the female body is designed; while our heads are not supposed to be hit by a hammer. To define birth as inherently traumatic is like defining breathing, eating or walking as inherently traumatic.<\/p>\n

Now let’s go to a best case scenario, where many people are born through orgasmic birth. What kind of world would that be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wandering Yeti posted this link below — we’ve posted the video to the top for maximum visibility. Thank you for the link! I am happy to see this concept go from something I’ve thought about and understood for years to something I’m seeing in the external world; I think this is perfectly intuitive. The capacity … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}