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"  Perhaps, but there are much, much easier ways. Although it&amp;#039;s never been studied, and there are no cases of it in medical literature, some women claim to have experienced orgasms during childbirth. Debra Pascali-Bonaro says that 20 percent of mothers interviewed for her film Orgasmic Birth (which I confess I haven&amp;#039;t seen, but it&amp;#039;s in my Net-flix queue) have births they consider orgasmic: &amp;quot;Some of them literally with birth orgasms, and others just with heightened sensations that they would categorize as an orgasmic emotional high.&amp;quot; Dr. Christiane Northrup, an ob-gyn and author, confirms that &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s absolutely possible because birth is a sexual event.&amp;quot; However, she says, this phenomenon can occur only during a natural, drug-free birth, in a &amp;quot;setting that has a tremendous amount of respect for the mother, her mate, and her caregivers.&amp;quot; (And if you&amp;#039;ve got some bongos or rain sticks, by all means, use them.) Dr. Erin Tracy, ob-gyn at Massachusetts General Hospital, remains skeptical. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not saying it&amp;#039;s impossible,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;If they&amp;#039;re having any stimulation of their genital area, theoretically I would imagine it could stimulate something resembling an orgasm\u2026 but [it&amp;#039;s] not based on any science that I&amp;#039;ve seen.&amp;quot; Dr. Northrup thinks more orgasmic births would occur if it weren&amp;#039;t for hospitals&amp;#039; lack of intimacy: &amp;quot;Four interns and a resident and an attending physician and two nurses you&amp;#039;ve never seen before come in and have you open your legs so that they can stick their fingers in your vagina,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;You try to have an orgasm in a hospital \u2014 good luck.&amp;quot; Believe me, I have tried, and you need at least six interns. Incidentally, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises that the safest place to deliver is in a hospital or an accredited birthing center, where all you get is a dumb old baby.  RELATED STORIES:  SEX: Can You Make Her Orgasm on Demand?   PLUS: Stacey Grenrock Woods on How to Rock the Man in the Boat   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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