Naomi Wolf

women, sexual response involves entering an altered state of consciousness

enter the transcendental state that takes the female brain into “high” orgasm, you absolutely need to feel safe; safe from “bad stress,” i

A low-stress environment of soft lighting, soothing music, caring attendants, and the loving presence of family, all actually helped the female body birth a baby, and then feed a newborn, successfully, in clinically measurable ways.

The trance stat

Relaxing allows for female arousal.

Stress can and often does stop the uterus from contracting in childbirth; it can stop the birth canal from

The baby is biochemically creating its mother’s love and feelings of attachment.

There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today’s power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women.

If it seems odd that an anxiety, such as one about breast shape, for example, can arise and flourish among millions of women at once, think about how powerful sexual imagery is.