The Mommy Files: Bringing childbirth to an orgasmic level
When women describe childbirth they most often use words like painful, excruciating, agonizing, intolerable--maybe empowering, even amazing, but never pleasurable or sensual. Orgasmic? Are you kidding?
The documentary Orgasmic Birth, quietly released last spring, is changing that. The film, which makes a case for natural childbirth, gained attention when ABC's news magazine 20/20 announced that it will air a few minutes of footage on January 2. The news sent mommy bloggers into a tizzy of excitement and now everyone from Lisa Belkin of The New York Times to Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon