We can’t get enough of Staceyann Chin! (Can you tell?!) In her most recent pregnancy post on HuffPo Black Voices, she writes about sex during pregnancy:

I must say I am looking forward to having my body back. Though I hear breastfeeding exclusively means you don’t really own your body just yet. But I won’t be throwing up, and I will be able to bend again and stretch and move without the obstacle of the abdominal basketball I have been navigating for months now. And I am particularly excited about the possibility of my body being aroused again. I dream of being laid out on some handmade quilt on a bed in Kingston, lean and limber again, at the mercy of a woman who has known my body for years. I can imagine evenings in Brooklyn, with new hands, and agile mouths traversing the changed terrain of my softened post-pregnancy contours. I can almost feel the skin under my own fingers as I trace the magic of my next lover’s hips, her navel beneath my cheek, the small of her back on my forehead, my — I may even break some old records, do some things I was too scared to do before I got pregnant — such is the glee that accompanies my anticipation. Some nights I can hear the sounds of my own pleasure, far, far away, in that parallel universe not yet lived, and though I am not yet standing full in that experience, I am hopeful, and humbled by the possibilities fomenting inside the unpredictability of life.

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