I was sitting with some friends at a table covered with posters and pamphlets. It was Frosh week at the University of Toronto. Several blocks of tables like ours were enticing students to join the rowing club, the running club, gay pride, jazz dance, and so on. It was a sunny, windy day, and the streets were packed with people.
Since our table was advertising for a pro-life club, it was attracting some lively debates, some cold stares, and quite a bit of curiosity. One girl wandered over and read through some papers that were lying on the table.
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It’s a lot of work being the world’s most charming baby, but boy, Is it worth it! People adore me wherever I go. I am so cute. I am so small. I have such tiny, tiny toes (or so they tell me). I like to ride around snuggled at my mom’s side in a little sling, and wherever we go, people want to have a peek at the beautiful baby.
My mom loves the attention. People ask her questions about me (usually the same ones), and she gets to show me off. Shopkeepers, waiters, and random old ladies come to smile and make silly sounds at me. It is very flattering. They say “What a beautiful baby!” “How old is he?” “What tiny toes!” (That’s how I know) and “Don’t babies smell so nice?” I usually choose this time to fill up my diaper, but most people are too polite to notice the irony.
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Adjusting to motherhood is never easy. Natural, yes, but not easy.
One of the hardest times is a few days after birth, when most women“crash,” or experience an emotional and physical low called the “baby blues.” It is completely normal and usually goes away in a few days. For some, however, the experience is more serious, and can linger for months. This is called “post-partum depression.”
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The Little Sparrow: Once upon a time there was a beautiful baby sparrow. Every day her mother would come and feed her and tell the little sparrow that one day she, too, would be able to fly. The little sparrow loved to watch her mother soar freely through the air with the other birds, and waited longingly for her time to fly from the nest.
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We women derive great emotional satisfaction from knowing we are attractive. When we feel sexy and desirable, we have more confidence in ourselves. We move with greater ease and speak with greater assurance and vivacity. We feel more comfortable. This is perfectly normal, the result of a natural desire to be attractive.
Men, though they have the same basic needs and desires, have slightly different wiring. For one thing, they are more sexual. Instead of a drive to be sexy, they have a drive to have sex. (This is not to be flippant about a woman’s sexuality, for of course we have a sex drive too. It is just operates differently.) Arousal for men is immediate and intense. They can be sexually stimulated simply by seeing a picture of a beautiful woman.
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Trying to avoid pain is perfectly natural, and like most instincts, our society shamelessly encourages it. Think of commercials on TV. For every imaginable discomfort there is a product that will remove it. For every pleasure there is a product that will enhance it. And most of the time we succeed. We have pain relief drugs in the bathroom cabinet, clothing for all extremes of weather, and medical relief just a phone-call away… (more…)
