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[silver_wolf101]

This is one of the reasons I love my birth professor so much - her choice of words. I'm studying/reviewing the information she posted online. Right now, it's the various stages of labor. During the second stage of labor (pushing) she actually wrote: "It feels like you're pushing your baby out of your butt." It amuses me

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[sagediscordia]

inducing labor with sex?

hospital..a nice one.

[silver_wolf101]

I'd say birthing center instead personally :-P

[silver_wolf101]

Yeah...semen has an extremely high concentration of prostaglandins, which soften the cervix and help ready it for dilation.

[lifeblender]

That's... got to be positively selected by evolution. Which is a bit creepy. Semen and sperm have as little as possible in them so that they go as far as possible into the woman. An extra chemical like that, in useful amounts... future-mother****ing must be a positive survival trait.

Or there could be a confounding factor, but even so. Weird.

[silver_wolf101]

Sometimes too much sex and the woman will start having contractions too early and they'll have to lay off for a while.

[lord_of_entropy]

I think this is a place where magical rational thinking may have provided the environment for selection to have an impact.
e.g. "During sex, things become more open & accommodating- I wonder if that would help a baby come out?"

Of course, I also wondered if a history of anal sex might help prevent perinium tearing, if only by providing a better baseline for what can be handled.