"The Farm has morphed into...a hands-on environmental think tank. Its self-reliant residents are comfortable with the long-lost country skills of natural home building and midwifery, but they're also adept at the newer arts of biodiesel mechanics and nuclear-radiation detection."
Conversation
"We should all notice that being here is like being stoned," he said at the beginning of a session preserved in his book Monday Night Class, "and that the Karma's very fast, and any little idea you take off on will go farther than maybe you think it will."
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"Ina May asked the right questions and discovered that the mother-to-be had concerns about her marriage: she and her husband had omitted the "till death do us part" bit from their ceremony."
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"The dilated woman and reluctant man played bride and groom a second time. In place of "till death do us part," Gaskin went with "as long as we both shall live." The baby emerged soon afterward, Ina May says."
BRO WHAT
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"The next day Gaskin called a meeting and issued a decree: "If you're sleeping together, you're engaged. If you're pregnant, you're married." Six or seven men who had joined the Caravan for the free love split."
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"Four marriage was a deep mystery." When I ask the Gaskins about the former setup, Stephen says, "That was something that happened spontaneously when couples took acid with other couples.""
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"They encourage the husband to fondle and French-kiss his wife while she huffs and puffs. Pictures in Spiritual Midwifery show wildly glowing faces. Ina May's informal research... roughly 20 percent of women attended by Farm midwives have experienced orgasms while giving birth."
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AGAIN BRO WHAT
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"Everybody's tits worked. We even had a man lactate. Not because he wanted to, but because his girlfriend moved down the road with the baby. That's the sort of thing that can happen if you love the baby a lot and feel anxious about whether they're getting enough to eat."
W H A T
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ok this got me
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