Orgasmic Childbirth

RantWoman's Make Your Own Job gig does not exactly come with a good watercooler or a totally feasible crowd of water cooler chatterers. RantWoman considers that unfortunate, especially in light of the following item on Orgasms during childbirth , including a preview of an upcoming documentary RantWoman would have to plug her television in to watch and 500+ comments. The comments definitely run the gamut.


RantWoman could certainly see orgasms during childbirth. RantWoman could definitely see it. RantWoman could also see where the very idea might exist in a completely different universe from some people's childbirth experiences. RantWoman can see a few other points she does not feel a fierce need to post to the article's already overflowing comments section / electronic proxy water cooler.

RantWoman actually has never given birth, and you dear Readers do not possibly know RantWoman well enough to be in the same sentence with anything more than glancing mention of her orgasms. In fact, merely posting about the topic, even posting into the faceless ether, is almost, ALMOST more than RantWoman can bring herself to do, except of course that, like most average lust-filled humans, RantWoman would desperately LIKE to chatter about this very topic over the water cooler.

Admittedly, RantWoman would blush several shades darker than her blog's mauve background if she actually had to talk about this in person with most of the people in her orbit. So unfortunately, even though RantWoman is pretty sure that 99.999999% of her readers would like nothing better than to have a good excuse to wander over and over around the topic of orgasms during childbirth or orgasms in other circumstances, the theme simultaneously exists in an Absolutely Do Not Go There conversational zone.

Here we come to an especially vexing aspect of RantWoman's interest in watercooler chatter about this topic: the issue of orgasms during childbirth often involves mom's partner, presumably often the dad. If one were going to talk about this, one would certainly want to be able to talk sort of frankly with guys who might hypothetically be in a situation to assist the orgasmic possibility, except of course that talking about the topic with many guys is even more blush-provoking that the idea of talking about the topic in general even if on the internet one might or might not even know the gender of all one's readers.



RantWoman has had to think about all this while deciding whether even to post to the list where this item came from. Posters to the list in question are about 80% guys. Sometimes, the list has interesting points about economics. Sometimes, it feels like a giant bucket of the academic worm castings left behind as the list members digest various philosophers, political theorists and economists. RantWoman actually does not mind this aspect of the list: RantWoman does not really have time for in-depth forays into many of the topics that come up but she has been reading the list long enough to have a tolerable sense of who can be counted on in what ways during the conversation and to enjoy enough of the back and forth to make the whole venture worthwhile.



This item was posted by a woman and the women on the list seem to interact with each other in the course of the general conversation less than the guys do. This is true even when the topic is something like which nationalities of men are romantic enough to be good tango partners and whether one should even generalize to the whole nationality based on the sample motivated to tango in the first place.



The guys were in fact stunningly silent about the tango partner question. RantWoman does not wish to speculate on whether the guys on the list the orgasms in childbirth item was posted to even tango. In a few cases, based only on postings, RantWoman finds it hard to picture. If the guys on the list do, they are probably less likely than women to have had the experience of both leading and following at different times depending on the gender balance at a given event. Or maybe tango attracts a greater percentage of men who are uptight about their gender identity and therefore have trouble having women or other men lead than some other kinds of dance.





On the other hand, guy perspectives on gender issues come up on the list occasionally, to varying effect. Also, the list moderator seems to do a search about once a week of odd things from porn sites: think scandalous porn threads with Sarah Palin stand-ins or other guilty pleasures. RantWoman seldom responds to these postings though sometimes she admits to finding them funny. RantWoman occasionally wonders whether the moderator's wife reads her husband's postings and what kind of conversations they might have about them.



The point here is that based on RantWoman's past experiences, the list this item came from would in fact be a reasonable recipient of a RantWoman comment about the topic. It's just that RantWoman exists in this firm shell of reserve. Well RantWoman flings undergarments around fairly nonchalantly in her building laundry room, even when one night she realized that one of her Muslim neighbors, a presumably single guy, might find this cavalier practice a little disconcerting. He did not linger long enough for RantWoman to ask him.





RantWoman thinks of herself as more relax than RantMom who gets appoplectic about racks of bras just hanging on retail displays. RantWoman also remembers one touching moment from one of her evenings dining with her buddies the Weed Whackin Wenches. RantWoman got home and sent the Wenches her customary effusive thank you email. One of the Wenches wrote back sheepishly to say they realized afterward that they had left their laundry, particularly the underwear half-folded in a pile in the living room as RantWoman came in. RantWoman remembers seeing a white pile in her usual visual fog, but had the Wenches not said anything, RantWoman would never have thought twice about what the pile was.

Upon mature reflection though, RantWoman realizes that if she wants to have an electronic water cooler here, she should just quit all the existential back and forth and post already!