NYT Newsflash! Neanderthals can no longer get turned on after seeing the mothers of their children give birth.
Some very funny commentary on this comes from one of my new favorite bloggers, BitchPhD, in her post Vaginas are Scary!!!.
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Hey, it's the medicalized Madonna/Whore dichotomy come back to bite you in the rear.
Sheesh. This is just one more reason to love my (birth-attending, birth-helping) spouse!
and lets all gather 'round with the whips and chains to figuratively speaking whip the poor guy who admits to this. YOU give me a break Dewi (and your language is disgusting..I would expect a medical professional to be using the right terms and to not be saying the "f" word to describe things). some people just dont like to watch it. and SURPRISE some of these guys really love their wives. I have been on the recieving end of people wanting me to see pictures of thier births and frankly I didnt want to. it GROSSED ME OUT. imagine that. and believe me, I do not have hangups. and SURPRISE when my daughter was about to come out I told them to get the mirror they had wheeled on over so I could watch the big moment the heck out of there. imagine that. I did not want to watch it. I guess thats the politically incorrect thing to say though. I did look at the pictures my husband took (and wasnt grossed out I might add but if he was I wouldnt be bullying him about it) but I really really did not want to watch everything as it was happening. so if some poor guy wants to look away or has a hard time with this, I guess the feminazis will be on the prowl to turn him into lunch meat.
maybe thats what happened with Katies husband...he said something politically incorrect and the claws came out....
Honestly. Men who think that sex has nothing to do with childbirth need to either get over themselves or keep their trouser trouts zipped away. And anonymous, come out of the Dark Ages, honey.
you know, I dont think the guy said that he didnt think they were related. I think he knows that.
some people just are turned off by watching it, ya know? so beat them with your little feminist rake why doncha?
I don't think a random someone wanting to show you photos of their birth is the same as being present with the woman you love at the birth of your child.
If that makes you not want to have sex with the woman you love, you didn't love her that much to begin with.
well..I think there is some validity to this. but you know, lets just be hateful to the poor men. first we shamed them into the delivery room. then we shame them if they dont react in just the right way.
I cant believe good ole liberal Dewi is even so dumb as to think the guy is a closeted gay or he must have been traumatized by all the medical stuff. I mean it couldnt just be what it is: that some things are just too much for people. I used to work in a hospital and a vets office and believe me, it takes very very little by way of medical procedure to traumatize some people. I had a woman who had a panic attack because her cat got a shot once. this thing of having men watch the delivery is very very new. maybe because in years past women werent cannibalized by feminist theory that had them forcing men and (to use your own terms Dewi) PUSSY WHIPPING them if they refuse to obey.
My wife, who is a mother, is totally hot and being there when my daughter was born was life changing and beautiful. We are much closer now that we went through it together and that makes the sex even better.
Anonymous (the prudy one):
Bend over, remove the plug from your butt, and take a good crap. You sound like you need one.
I used to work in a hospital and a vets office and believe me, it takes very very little by way of medical procedure to traumatize some people. I had a woman who had a panic attack because her cat got a shot once.
Did she refuse to pet her cat for 6 months because of the horrible, horrible trauma?
I watched my wife give birth, and it was sort of gross, I guess. I also got to watch my grandmother chop the head off of chickens, and my grandfather peel the skin off of live catfish, both of which were far more gross than watching childbirth. But I still ate Sunday dinner.
Only a man who does not love women sexually would be so turned off by his wife’s pussy during the birth of their child to say they felt “traumatized”.
Or he's a ridiculous Oprahfied wussy.
- Steve K.
Steve, you just made me spew diet pepsi all over my computer screen. That's really, really good.
Katie
As a truly wise friend of mine said, "We don't refuse to have sex with men because pee comes out of the same thing they use for sex."
Not wanting to look at a stranger's birth pictures is different. I'm so grateful I had children with a man who'd catch them cheerfully (when the midwife almost didn't make it) OR hold me while I did the work.
And, if it were physically possible, he'd probably want to have sex the same day. Doesn't seem to have bothered him at all.
Perfectly prudish couples get divorced, too, and some of the divorced women aren't even feminists, I betcha.
you seem to have missed the point. I discussed this with my husband after reading this. (btw my husband was not grossed out by witnessing the birth so he is not defending his own actions or something like that). the point is that some people do not enjoy being forced to watch this. a lot goes into what makes people feel sexual. I would imagine some of you women who feel so high and mighty are turned off if, say, the guy is all sweaty. and I would imagine a lot of women stamp their feet about their right to refuse to swallow thier husbands sperm. but heaven help the guy if seeing all kinds of blood and such from his wifes vagina affects his sexuality then he is just a big jerk or worse. I knew of a family once where the wife (who sounds a lot like you all) was just all into all this womens bodies stuff and her and her daughters would sit around the dinner table and talk about thier periods and stuff and the men really needed to have the right attitude about it or well, they just werent enlightened or something. they werent enlightened even though I am sure they thought they were being very cutting edge.
I am sure a lot of men are not fazed a bit by watching a birth but that does not make them "better" than someone who just doesnt want to watch it or who has an unexpectedly negative reaction to it.
I am sure a lot of men are not fazed a bit by watching a birth but that does not make them "better".
Oh, jeez louise. Yah, I'm better than them. These guys won't have sex for months because they think their wife's ugly part is all icky-poo.
Thank god Pearl Harbor was in 1941 instead of today, cause we'd never have whipped the Japs with the pansies we have here today.
- Steve K.
Steve, you just made me spew diet pepsi all over my computer screen. That's really, really good.
Nothing I ever do will compare with Toby's "letter". Holy. Shit. THAT is really good.
Well, dad gum, if their wife's body gives them a bad case of post traumatic stress syndrome, then I guess they'll have to take a Playboy and Ol' Rosie down to the basement forevermore. Get me a violin so I can play them a sad, sad song.
well isnt that lovely Dewi. makes you look like a real lady. I started to respond in kind but I thought nah, dont want to do that.
you have succeeded in assisting me in my realizations that a lot of the assumptions I have made about the leftist lunatic fringe are absolutely correct.
I further suspect that if I were to call you what you just called me this post would be removed. however because your views match those of the blog writer, no doubt, it will remain. can we talk about a double standard? sure, theres censorship going on...it only happens if the censoree doesnt agree with the censor. but you can use all the profanity in the world, call people all the names you want as long as you are expousing the liberal way (do I hear the sound of hypocrisy in action...hmmmmm) if I were to call you what you just called me there would be all kind of outcry about my hostility issues and how I need therapy and to get a life, etc etc etc. not to mention that I must secretly envy you or I must be secretly convicted by your standards or I would not say such a thing(I dont think you need therapy, I just think you are a brainwashed liberal) and those responsible for pulling my post would be thumping their chests about how good they are to protect you from having bad words hurled at you. (never mind they hurl those same bad words at others) however, I am not going to stoop to your level. to be honest Dewi, your little potty mouth has made me see that the occasional lapses I have where I slip in a salty word or two really have no place in my life. seeing what it looks like on someone else has made me determined to excise the occasional cuss word I slip out in moments of frustration or to emphasize a point that I feel needs particular emphasis. so thanks.
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