In the hot & heavy debate over “natural” v. “painless” childbirth, the naturalist school has a pet argument: childbirth among primitive peoples, they contend, is easier than among women “degenerated ...

Though it responds to a justified distrust of the medical establishment among women, it also subtly partakes of an insidious mythology. Pregnant women are everywhere, but in a way it’s hard to see ...

But what if birth didn’t have to be anything like that? What if it could be pleasurable? It turns out that there’s a movement trying to help more people experience this type of orgasmic birth. Also ...