How was your weekend? Mine was good, I guess, except that this website was brought to my attention.

It’s the website for a film called Orgasmic Birth, a documentary (propaganda-mentary?) that shows women how to achieve orgasm while giving birth to a baby. I mean, the g-spot is right there, people.

Watch the preview if you dare. I guess this is NSFW.

Ew ew ew ew ew ew!!!!

The number of questions this raises in my mind is staggering. And I could use some enlightenment, surely. I am male, I have never given birth, and the very idea of busting nut while my child emerges into the world just seems wholly wrong. Is this a sexist attitude? Is it possible for a birthing mother to achieve a non-sexual orgasm? Is there such a thing for women as a non-sexual orgasm? (I do know that in the case of men, the answer is no how, no way.)

Sorry to ruin the start of your week, but I could really use some help with this one.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zG_6IVmXvr0%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

Ned Lannamann is a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon. He writes about film, music, TV, books, travel, tech, food, drink, outdoors, and other things.

6 replies on “Ummm…… Ew?”

  1. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, too. It seems to me that they’ve mislabeled their philosophies for the shock/sensationalist reaction that the name “Orgasmic Birth” provokes. After watching the preview, its seems that they’re really promoting something like “sensual, reduced-pain, not-treating-pregnancy-like-a-medical-condition birth,” which is, like, totally cool and understandable and certainly commendable. Reducing that ethos to the term “Orgasmic Birth” cheapens it to a funny party joke and blog fodder, as we are seeing right here! Hmmm…

  2. I don’t have children, so I can’t speak from experience, but I do know that we have a culture that works to engender fear of childbirth in women. A woman happily announcing her pregnancy is invariably regaled with her friends’ stories of long, painful labor, tearing, and other horrors. I am delighted that someone is trying to infuse women with the spirit that they can give birth and that it doesn’t need to be horrifying.

  4. Oh, me too, Ned. You bet your Pulitzer I am. I’m just saying that perhaps their branding runs counterproductive to their goals, which are promoting what Beth eloquently describes above and not a viral video for people to chortle at.

  5. Sometimes when I have a really big pooh it stimulates my prostate. I imagine it’s exactly the same feeling for these ladies.

  6. Matt:

    To get the idea try shiting a watermelon or pulling your top lip up over where your hairline used to be.

    And, ladies don’t have prostate glands.

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