Pain and pleasure

Pain and pleasure

It is very difficult to talk about this, because for most of us experience of childbirth is placed in a hospital protocol and is not referred to as a moment of sexual woman’s natural cycle. Yet, in nature this is the birth, so let me outline some considerations, conscious of its delicate nature and that may be very different from woman to woman.

The pain is associated, anthropologically, rites of passage and initiation: this is not just about femininity, but is easily applied to femininity, if we think, for example, that a component of pain joins nell’esordio same sexual cycle women with menstrual pain that many women receive early adolescence. To cite another example, pain related to tearing hymen has a symbolic importance in the sexual life of the girl who becomes a woman.

The puzzle-like pain, love and death is in fact a hallmark of many cultures and a category we can easily apply to sexuality, and I think especially the female sexuality. Apply to female sexuality will some necessary components in childbirth: the abandonment, the need for open and to let through, tied to psychological and physical pleasure.

Our sex life everyday is obviously not geared to the pain, on the contrary, however, believe that it is not by chance that the physiology of pain has not provided a component in several crucial moments of sexual life of women, the prospect of ‘ accepting the pain of childbirth. Exactly the same way that provides openness, acceptance and surrender.

It may be objected that these pains are very mild when compared with the experience of pain in childbirth, however, two considerations are also true:

- Physiological pain of childbirth varies from woman to woman and birth to birth, but it is true that the pain of childbirth is on average as indicated significantly more intense in our time and our latitudes, perhaps because it distorted the hospital routine that did not facilitate understanding (indeed makes us feel “sick” with the rise of a series of psychological barriers that amplify the grief)

- The experience of childbirth is unique with previous experience for its importance in terms of survival: the woman has to change enough to become a mother, or wholly and selflessly dedicate themselves to the new creature that is completely dependent on her. Only the strong experiences change us so, within a few hours.

It is also true that, compared to any other type of pain experienced in childbirth that has two characteristics that make it unique:

- It’s interrupted by bursts of endorphins, which give us a relaxing break (also from falling asleep between a contraction in the other);

- Is associated with a positive event, the birth of his son, and not by a pathological event. As soon as the birth takes place, the pain ceases and is actually removed from memory and the memory is rather positive event: a mechanism that is true for almost all, and that allowed the continuation of the species.

In various ways, both physical and psychological pain of childbirth is associated with pleasure the birth. Some women also report feelings of being perceived orgasmic expulsion, others (more) can at least bear witness to the pleasant physical sensation of “freedom” related to the phase of active pushing. Anyone who has dealt well the experience of childbirth, it takes a psychological pleasure as from over his self-esteem, self-esteem and know what is needed in the first phase of a newborn dell’accudimento.

The issue is very complex and I wanted here provide only a starting point, however, would end with a consideration that affects all women and all living beings. The experience of pain can be educational and necessary, but only insofar as is flanked by the experience of compassion. If we feel welcomed, loved, understood, even appreciated the experience of pain, the pain perception itself colorirĂ  these feelings of gratitude and tenderness. There is evidence also occur in situations much more serious pain of childbirth, but the pain of childbirth what is true in a special way.

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