Some women have orgasms during childbirth.
*crickets*
Let me repeat that: some women, as the baby is exiting the birth canal, can experience a tremendous orgasm.
Updated: I just talked to my mom about this, and she told me she had an orgasm when birthing my younger sister. OMG.
On January 2, ABC’s 20/20 will air a documentary called Orgasmic Childbirth, where women share their experiences of having an orgasm while their child is exiting their body.
In a brief story in the New York Times, Tamra Larter, a woman featured in the documentary, describes …

Once I got to the halfway point of my first pregnancy and realized,” Holy hell, this kid has got to come out of me somehow,” I’ve been freaked out by labor and delivery. A 7 or 8 pound human has to come out of your…down there? How will it ever be the same? How will it look?
A new Psychology Today article discusses the (what else?) psychological and physical effects childbirth has on new moms’ sex lives. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture, but it does discuss the effects a vaginal …