I do.
I think that it's because of the act that took place for the baby to be created....
and the place of the doorway where it will be born from.

I think it's very erotic.

Well... maybe on a you tube video. Not so much in real life. :-p
My better half agrees.

eh, i'm trying to. someone in birth its ups and downs tribe (i think) wrote that after she had sex, she felt her uterus contracting and someone else commented in response that birth is a giant orgasm. elsewhere (i forget where), i read about women having orgasms during birth. and one woman wrote that she had made love with her husband the day she gave birth and she felt her orgasm as waves in her uterus and that that feeling persisted from the orgasm into labor. i know that gaskin and her midwives encouraged couples to fool around at the early stages of labor. so i am trying to see it. it's an intriguing idea. but one i'm pretty cerebral about -- too many years hearing how painful and miserable birth is, i guess.

taylor, it's so weird. i was just thinking of something along this line today. i was watching a bunch of births on youtube & i wondered if being a birth junkie could be the same as having a birth fetish. is there such a thing? i realize birth is a sexual act in that sex is how we got there, but could it be that i have some sort of fetish? i'm not "getting off" watching births, but i definitely love a good birth. perhaps it's oxytocin. do you suppose we release oxytocin just watching a birth?

Hi,

and o yes! I think birth is really very erotic! I have never felt more beautiful, more powerful or stronger in my whole life! I was so aware of my body and I felt that, when I stopped listening to my head and allowed my body to lead the way, the "instincts" just kicked in. I knew what to do, when to do it and how to do it. The wisdom was just there. And I felt my body the way I had never felt "her" before. It was beautiful. I felt like a warm, loving goddess and yes, I felt very erotic. The unassisted water homebirth of my son was the most amazing moment in my life! I took pictures, too and I think they are very erotic and strong. Just as I was in this moment.