by Tricia McKinney

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So a headline on MSNBC.com caught my eye this morning: Pioneering midwife touts 'orgasmic birth.'
It's a story about a 69-year-old midwife from Tennessee who is trying to revitalize the art of midwifery. The bulk of the article is about stuff like statistics about the safety of home births. The bit that led to the headline doesn't come up until the very end of the story. Here's a quote, "Gaskin says that under the right circumstances women experience a sort of birth ectasy."

As the attached picture attests, I did not experience that kind of childbirth.