A new study reveals women can experience an orgasm during child birth according to Fox News. A survey conducted online, in Sexologies, showed that "midwives reported witnessing orgasms in about 0.3 percent of births."
Elana Skoko, a vocalist and author of "Memories of a Singing Birth", gave birth to a healthy baby girl three-years-ago and admitted although she did feel the conventional pain of child birth, she was pleased to feel pleasure.
"I had this wavy sensation of blissful waves going through me," she said. "The moment I realized my body was behaving sensually spontaneously and not obstructing that feeling, and just going with this feeling of my sensual body, my labor just went fast ahead. I had pain, but was not afraid of it because I was dealing with it. It was fun, because I could laugh through it."
Orgasmic births have been previously reported by mothers and healthcare professionals but remains taboo in today's society.
"People see 'birth' and 'orgasmic' together on paper, and it pushes all their buttons on sexuality," said Debra Pascali-Bonaro, childbirth educator and director of the documentary "Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret."
Pascali-Bonaro claims an orgasmic birth can be obtained for mother's who wish not to have a conventional birth. Home births grants a higher chance of having an orgasmic birth because the mother's movement is limited by the medical devices attached to her. The childbirth educator also speculated that the results of the survey are not accurate because the orgasmic birth topic remains taboo and some women refuse to admit to their health care professionals they experienced sexual stimulation while giving birth.
Mothers are not encouraged to stray away from their birth plans if it does include the conventional hospital delivery in hopes of having an orgasmic birth. Every woman is different and other factors can alter a delivery.
