It would be dishonest to ignore the backlash. By the late 1980s, critics accused the "1981 model" of romanticizing pain. What about women who had traumatic births? What about survivors of sexual abuse for whom the analogy between birth and sex is a trigger, not a liberation?
The title "Birth" is fully realized in the final segment, which features an uncensored, clinical depiction of labor and delivery. Birth - Anatomy of Love and Sex -1981-