{"id":1123,"date":"2009-11-06T19:53:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/11\/lets-talk-about-sex-2.html"},"modified":"2009-11-06T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:53:36","slug":"lets-talk-about-sex-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/11\/lets-talk-about-sex-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Talk About Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite people <\/a>just wrote a book. And it’s an awesome book. It’s especially awesome because it’s about a subject that few of us – and I wave my hand unashamedly here – are willing to talk about publicly: sex. Sex after motherhood, specifically. I can be as ribald as the next thirty-something-mom-with-thirteen-year-old-sense-of-humor, but that’s behind closed doors. Type out the word ‘orgasm’ for all the world to see? Whatever would my mother say?<\/p>\n

(Actually, I know what she’d say. Or not say. She’d just laugh and send it to all of her friends. My mother is not as reserved as I am.<\/a> If there’s ever a ‘Grandmanatrix’ column, she’s the one to write it.)<\/p>\n

So I’m glad – grateful – that Kristen (aka The Mominatrix<\/a>) has devoted herself to ensuring that we do<\/i> talk about this stuff. And that we laugh about it, and cheer about it, and celebrate it, rather than just titter behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

Because what’s sexier than being a mom?<\/p>\n

\"mominatrix.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Nothing, that’s what. Megan Fox, whatever. Moms – bringers-forth-of-life, wielders-of-lotion, mistresses-of-discipline, women-who-run-with-the-breast-pumps – are where it’s at when it comes to what’s really sexy.<\/p>\n

Just know that when we say we have a headache? After all the effort that goes in to bringing forth life, caring for that life, cleaning up after that life, managing-that-life-with-all-the-whip-crack-discipline-of-a-Mominatrix? We actually probably really do.

(The Mominatrix’s Guide To Sex will be available in January, but you can pre-order at Amazon now<\/a>. In the meantime, enjoy her column, and check out her posse of Mominatrixes – Mominatrices? – including yours truly – at Flickr<\/a>.) <\/i><\/p>\n

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