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From: bls@Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.wizards,alt.sex,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Orgasm during labor?
Date: 19 May 1994 04:35:41 GMT

reka@uclink.berkeley.edu (Reka Gabriella Morvay) writes: > Though I do not have the actual reference, I have read in my
> handy-dandy _More Joy of Sex_ that it is possible for some women to
> have an orgasmic experience through labor. [...] Is this an urban
> legend or is there actual evidence (i.e. medical records) of women
> enjoying labor to this extent?

From _Human Sexual Response_, Masters & Johnson (ISBN 0-553-20429-7):

        STAGE I: [Female] Orgasm has its onset with a sensation
        of suspension or stoppage.  Lasting only an instant,
        the sensation is accompanied or followed immediately by
        an isolated thrust of intense sensual awareness,
        clitorally oriented, but radiated upward into the
        pelvis. [...] Twelve women, all of whom have delivered
        babies on at least one occasion without anesthesia or
        analgesia, reported that during the second stage of
        labor they experienced a grossly intensified version of
        the sensations identified with this first stage of
        subjective progression through orgasm.  Reports of this
        concept have also appeared from time to time in the
        literature [Ellis, _Man and Woman_; Newton, _Maternal
        Emotions_].

Brian "the hard way" Scearce
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Brian Scearce                                     bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
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