Many women also experience orgasm during natural childbirth. We also don't talk about that because women's bodies and sexuality are taboo.
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It shouldn't surprise anyone that nature uses the same kinds of chemical pathways to bond us with our babies as it does with our lovers.
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I had no idea or expectation how my body would react. I didn't need it to be that way. It was so intense for me that it was uncomfortable.
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I used off-color language to describe it but it was an intensely personal and intimate thing which I would probably not try to repeat.
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But how to you describe base, instinctual, hormonally driven processes like childbirth, breastfeeding, sex...?
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We make up stories about miracles; elide the details; use flowery or euphemistic language precisely because they make us uncomfortable.
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The takeaway was not how breastfeeding made me feel. It's what that hormone cascade did to my brain and my relationship with my daughter.
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But because I'm gay and trans, everything I do is sexualized in the eyes of bigots, so they focus on an intentionally crude turn of phrase.
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Well I say fuck those people. If they can't take my brand of humor then they're missing out on some.good writing.
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Also someone asked me last night if I wrote columns regularly and that was a really amazing compliment. No, but... I could?
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Thanks for tweeting this. Also nice pun in first tweet. 
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