: While originally a Danish production, it has been associated with various distributors and public agencies, such as the National Film Board of Canada
These images were shocking. They did not hide the mess. They highlighted the rectum, the urethra, the engorged vulva. These 1981 anatomical plates were pornography to the squeamish, but sacred iconography to the natural birth movement. They declared: This is the anatomy of love. It is not clean. It is not quiet. It is blood, sweat, and the sound of a woman roaring. Birth - Anatomy of Love and Sex -1981-