Labor Orgasms Called 'Best-Kept Secret'
Moms, Experts Say Relaxation Is Key to Pleasurable Childbirth
Painful. Excruciating. Unbearable. These are the words most often
associated with childbirth.
Is it possible to have an orgasm during childbirth?
But what about pleasurable? Blissful? Euphoric?
Some women even say that instead of agony, childbirth can be ecstasy.
Amber Hartnell of Hawaii said she experienced an orgasm during labor
when she gave birth to her son in September 2005.
"All of a sudden the orgasm just started rolling through and rolling
through, and it just kept coming, and my whole body was spiraling and
rolling, and I was laughing and crying," she said.
Hard to imagine? Hartnell and her husband, Nassim Haramein, were
shocked as well. Although they had spent many hours planning for their
son's birth, in a tub under a tree outside their home, they say they
never planned for an "orgasmic" birth.
Haramein was amazed -- and also relieved -- to see his wife experience
such pleasure.
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"It made me feel like everything was gonna be all right," he said.
"The experience didn't have to be a traumatic, painful experience. It
could be an experience of ecstatic joy."
"It is, as we say, the best-kept secret," said Debra Pascali-Bonaro, a
childbirth educator for 26 years. "I believe by women having such
terrible fear. … Women aren't getting the choices they need, to make
the experience as easy as possible."
Labor Orgasms Are 'Basic Science'
To prove that it is possible to have pleasure in childbirth,
Pascali-Bonaro made a documentary called "Orgasmic Birth."
Tamra and Simon Larter of suburban New Jersey were one of the couples
that allowed Pascali-Bonaro to film their most intimate moments of
labor. For their second child, the Larters wanted a natural birth with
midwives at their home. They spent part of Tamra Larter's labor
kissing and caressing.
"The physical touch and the nurturing was just really comforting to
me," Tamra Larter said, adding that she ultimately experienced an
orgasmic birth. "It was happening, and I could hardly breathe, and it
was like, 'oh, that feels good.' That's all I could say really."
You can find the rest of this creepy article here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/
Thanks to Lynn for the link. I was never going to give birth to a
child, and now I'm REALLY not going to give birth to a child. I guess
its sexual when you make the little alien so it might as well be one
at the end of the ordeal right? okay i feel like a creep just saying
that. I need to go throw up now. I dont think that bitch was crying
and screaming for job. She must have "my life is over" and "I feel
great!!!" all mixed up in her head. Labor does not feel good. I have
never had a child but this is pretty much a known fact. What this
article didn't tell you is that in addition to epidurals, these women
were given Ecstasy drips. Thats the only real explanation. Either that
or this article is a ploy by the government to get people to have more
children by telling women they can experience the best orgasm ever
while pushing out babies. Anyway, I'm mostly at a loss. Your thoughts?
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