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   Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 20:07:53 JST Vagina Museum

   One New York twilight sleep clinic received frequent noise complaints due to the sound of the patients screaming.

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     It may sound strange in the 21st century to think that people found ceding complete control to physicians and giving birth in restraints to be empowering, but many in the Twilight Sleep Associations saw it to be very empowering indeed. Ultimately, all they wanted was no pain.

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     Twilight sleep fell from favour almost as quickly as it rose to popularity. One of its most vocal advocates died in childbirth (for unrelated reasons). Also, the First World War made anything German, such as the Freiburg method, somewhat unfashionable. The practice didn't entirely disappear, although it ceased to be a fad and became less mainstream. Queen Elizabeth II was said to have used twilight sleep for the births of her first three children.