Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret (2009)
- Directed by
- Debra Pascali-Bonaro
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows eleven women through childbirth. It argues that the birthing process has become too medicalized, and shows how natural home birth can be a blissful experience. Experts and parents talk about making birth less about procedures and more about a natural event.
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What happens
Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret (also called Orgasmic Birth: 11 Mothers, 12 International Experts or just Orgasmic Birth) is a 2008 documentary film that examines the intimate nature of birth. It had been shown at women's and film festivals since May 2008, before being shown for the first time in prime time on January 2, 2009 by ABC’s 20/20. The documentary follows the journey of eleven women through labour, presenting how blissful birth can be. Interviews with experts, doctors, midwives, gynecologists, anthropologists, neonatologists, nurses, Lamaze educators, and mothers and fathers explore how the birthing process has become a medical procedure rather than a natural process. Noted narrators include Ina May Gaskin. While the documentary features several mothers who claim to have had an orgasm during labor, it is primarily about natural labour at the home without drugs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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