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The Rise Of “Orgasmic Birth”: The Science Behind Pairing Labor Pain With Pleasure

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Birth stories used to sound alike: sterile rooms, bright lights, pain management in the form of big, scary needles. Yet more and more women are reclaiming childbirth as something profoundly personal and embodied — and even pleasurable. From water births to forest births, women are reimagining how their birth story not only gets to look, but feel too.And since there are few things that feel better than experiencing an orgasm, that explains why some women are choosing to have an orgasmic birth.While that might sound like a myth or maybe a steamy fantasy, one in three people polled in a 2024 surv...

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