Understanding how sexual pleasure can ease labor pain and enhance birth is a huge gap for both providers and expected parents.
In this episode, Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski discusses the importance of good sex education and how it can help reduce barriers to pleasure for both survivors of sexual assault and new parents who are looking to have a positive postpartum experience. If you’re interested in learning more about how pleasure can help make childbirth easier and happier for everyone involved, I highly recommend listening to this episode!
Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski is an RN, educator, counselor, author, and speaker of more than 900 local, national, and international workshops/trainings. She is a past Lamaze International president and has been a childbirth educator since the 1970s. She is also an American Association of Sexuality educators, counselors, and therapists certified as a sexuality educator and sexuality counselor.
In this episode:
- How you could bring in your sexuality and sexual pleasure to prepare for birth
- Self-pleasure as a way to ease childbirth pain and stress
- There are many other ways to be orgasmic that don’t involve inserting something into a vagina