Men, Women and Babies

I wasn't quite sure what Meghan O'Rourke's point was, at first. I misread her first line. Or maybe it was the incongruence of her subject with the ad for Thumbsucker above the column. The problem seems to be that some men who watch the birth process no longer feel sexually attracted to their wives. She's right. They are jerks. It should be a transcendent experience, where one understands what it's really all about. I've always thought women are more beautiful when they're pregnant and my appreciation of my wife for the gifts she has given me was really born with my children. The loss of this understanding is tragic.

Maybe this is why pornography is evil. It makes people live in fantasies rather than reality. It also seems to be making women think that their worth is in their bodies and little else, and children seem like some kind of penalty to be avoided. It's perversion any way you look at it.