Comments on: Birth orgasms

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:28:23 +0000

Also, the brain tends to not be able to distinguish strong signals from one spectrum vs another.

Intense cold feels about the same as an intense fire.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:27:16 +0000

When people are in existential crisis, to the point where their spines are exerting all energies for survival, they don’t want anyone else to move them or provide nerve stimulus that distracts them. This is the divide between survival and death, which people know instinctively.

A woman may wish to hold your hand though if she thinks salvation comes through you. But if she relies more on herself, then perhaps not.

By: James

James — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:23:25 +0000

The last sentence was perfect, I’m still on the floor laughing!
“And note, also, that the women in the study were all French” But of course mon ami!

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:53:08 +0000

Carol Burnett said it best.

“You want to know what ‘natural childbirth’ is like?

Take your lower lip between your thumb and forefinger.

Now pull it up over your head.”

yyyeeeeeooouuuucchh

By: Ed Bonderenka

Ed Bonderenka — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:54:24 +0000

My first wife andI had our son at home, as planned.
A book we had read (among many) suggested that since conception was a product of love making, birth should also be.
I still remember her yelling “Don’t touch me!”, 33 years later.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:30:18 +0000

Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me, too, and I am a woman for whom labor was a whole lot easier than for pretty much all of the women I know. This is definitely not because it didn’t hurt – indeed it did – but because I got through it much faster than most people seem to, with less time for the overwhelming pain to overwhelm me. This seems to be genetic — my mother was the same way — and does not change the nature of the pain, nor the disconnect between that pain and anything I associate with pleasure. Skepticism seems appropriate.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:12:38 +0000

I bumped into this issue years ago and concluded similarly to neo, its possible for a few women. Birth is not always a long drawn out affair. 20 years ago my best friend was waiting for his wife to give birth at their local hospital, while he was waiting a large black woman was hurried by on a gurney yelling, “this is my seventh child and I’m telling you folks, its coming now!” Later he was stunned to overhear nurses talking about her having a 15 minute labor at the hospital.

By: Jim Nicholas

Jim Nicholas — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:42:03 +0000

An addendum to Ymarsaker’s comment:

One reason the sado-masochistic sexual relationship is potentially very dangerous is that pain is a condition for sexual pleasure and, for some, the greater the pain, the greater the pleasure.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:19:02 +0000

Pain and pleasure are easily switched around from the command center.

It’s why sadism and masochism exists.

By: Fausta

Fausta — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:01:04 +0000

Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me.