Reply #77: Hold on there.

[Lyric]

While I am certain that many women, probably more than you think, have felt these sensations, most women wouldn't dare to admit it out loud. Who wants to admit to being turned on by breastfeeding, for example?

I admit it. I have always had uber-sensitive nipples, and breastfeeding certainly provides very intense stimulation of that area. The lactation consultant at my doctor's office told me that it was normal for some super-sensitive women, and nothing to be ashamed of. It's not like I was getting physically aroused by my *baby*--just by that particular sensation. Nothing weird about that.

Most women see Rachel on Friends and her television ilk screaming their heads off while giving birth, and assume that that's what childbirth is like. Of course they're going to assume that childbirth is beyond painful, and like a self-fulfilling prophecy, that's how their birth is like.

Yeah--I bet all of those billions of women who gave birth in agony in the millenia before TV and pop culture existed were just part of a big self-fulfilling prophecy too. It was all in their minds!!

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