Birth Bundle: Four erotic short stories

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Anal penetration also causes the oxytocin release of the Ferguson reflex and the endogenous prostaglandin due to touching the cervix. I'm so grateful Scarlett wrote this book and we as sisters share such a tight bond that's only been closer since the birth of my son Laselle.

Well-applied (and well-received) non-erotic or erotic skin contact may prevent cortisol levels from going too high. Each woman needs to take into account her own physical and emotional health and make a decision that feels best for her. From there it became a family joke that the book put my sister into labour, because she was one week before her due date.

Yet in our modern context, Allender and Longman suggest we live in a world of “divided and distorted desire that wreaks havoc with every legitimate and holy longing.

As long as the membranes are not ruptured, both intercourse (penetration) and ejaculation can have a function in labour induction.You can also consider other forms of sexual intimacy – such as massage or oral sex – as alternatives to vaginal intercourse. A wife, eternally horny at the end of her pregnancy, ties her willing husband up to the bed and uses him as a sex toy to induce labor. I had planned to give birth at home, for the comfort and intimacy my own home would provide but my baby wanted to stay a little longer. The only way I can describe the moment that my son slipped from my body was orgasmic—the building pressure of contractions and pushing, ending with an intense emptiness and release. When we reduce the erotic, we invariably twist it into something exploitative, for who can reduce what God created to hold such full and holy goodness?

That makes oxytocin one of the potential factors when couples look for a way to influence labour proactively. Results suggested that genital trauma and breastfeeding may negatively impact FSFI scores, but they were not related to genital response or subjective sexual arousal as measured in the laboratory.In the choreography of ‘sexual labour pain relief’, orgasm appears the most valuable and practical element. Likewise, when it comes to eroticism, perhaps we organize because we are afraid of the astonishing fact that two bodies can come together and create a new life,knit together in the mother’s womb. But as he sat there and watched John compulsively run his hands over his swelling middle, he felt those intentions begin to twist and grow into something else entirely. In a world that has, from its beginnings, tangled bodies up with shame, is it any wonder that to see the glory of God in the erotic feels complicated?