I'm reviewing Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one page at a time.
Last time, I forgot to include something fun.
Imagine if you will, trying to orgasm in a lit-up hospital room, on an empty stomach, with strangers (or close to it) streaming in and out to check to see how you're doing. Just as you're entering your zone, escaping into the void, or wherever you go... an intern (who is also an undergrad who took a course with you last semester and who will now be seeing your naked tits and ass and all) barges through the door to ask what you will want for breakfast after all this is over.
Imagine how, perhaps, simply being at the hospital gives you a constant undercurrent (or worse) of fear, given what hospitals are for and what awful things happen in them (despite heroic efforts). Those are just some of the conditions we're talking about when we contextualize hospital labor and birth.
I don't know about you, but they are not the conditions I associate with getting there, getting off, busting a nut, etc., etc., etc. (drink if you can't think of another euphemism for cumming!). I'm not equating orgasm to birth. Not at all, but many of the same awesome processes involved in human orgasm are in play in human birth.
Where would you prefer to orgasm? Could you orgasm at all in a hospital room with other people around? Maybe that's a yes for lots of people, but would they want to? Maybe it's not so hippie-dippie, ignorant, or anti-science for people to prefer home birth after all...
I could talk about birth forever, but Sapiens does not.
Page 11 really is next. To be continued...
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