""This isn't a new conversation, but it's finally becoming a louder one-and I'm here for it," Dr. Roxanne Pero, OB-GYN and member of O Positiv's Medical Advisory Board, tells Scary Mommy. "As an integrative OB-GYN, I've seen how fear and taboo around sexual health have fueled miseducation and left women vulnerable, especially when it comes to childbirth. When women are able to bridge the gaps in education and body awareness across both sexual health and childbirth, that's what true empowerment feels like. We need this now more than ever in women's healthcare.""
""And since there are few things that feel better than experiencing an orgasm, that explains why some women are choosing to have an orgasmic birth.""
""I absolutely love [the idea of an orgasmic birth]," says Pero. "Over the years, and birth after birth in my OB practice, I began to see how hospital births can sometimes strip away the beauty, innate strength, and autonomy of the women giving birth. I starte"
Childbirth norms are shifting as more women reclaim birth as a personal, embodied, and sometimes pleasurable experience. Some women pursue orgasmic birth, integrating sexual pleasure into labor and delivery. A 2024 survey from Fin PleasureVibe found roughly one in three respondents expressed interest in self-pleasure during labor. Midwives, doulas, and some doctors are increasingly discussing orgasmic birth as a valid option. Integrative clinicians note that fear and sexual-health taboos have contributed to miseducation and disempowerment. Increasing body awareness, education, and autonomy can enable women to make informed choices about pleasure and birth.
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