I know of a time when girls and women of all ages had to leave town if they became pregnant out of wedlock. The married women did not have to flee, in the middle of the night, to a distant relative’s home, but they were hardly seen. Of course, this era seems like hundreds of light years ago. But there have been enough movies on the subject to prove it really happened. Part of the stigma was the fact that these women were having sex. There was really no way to deny it considering the bulging belly. Since sex was such a taboo subject, it would stand to reason that the product of that sex would be as well.
Happily the human race evolved. There was the sexual revolution, and suddenly sex was no longer a shameful dirty act. It took a little longer for pregnancy to be liberated, and when it was, it was not as glamorous, but it was okay, as long as we remembered we were mothers now, nothing sexy about that. Women seemed to go through a time where being pregnant meant being fat, unattractive, and off limits. To all but the closet prego lovers, it was just a given that pregnant women were not attractive. And to reinforce this, we had maternity clothes. You know the baggy over-alls, shirts and blouses much longer in the front to make sure and completely cover the belly, and long flowing dresses. The men of this era all seemed to have an unspoken pact to just tolerate us at our most unattractive. Hope was huge that we would not just let ourselves go, but it was expected we would end up being more huge than that hope.
Fast forward a couple of decades. Movie stars got bored and decided that they were going to keep making money even while they were pregnant. They were going to not only, not hide their bellies, but they were going to put the spot light right on them. Naked pregnant bellies on magazine covers, photo shoots, starlets out and about with shorts and half tops, and most shockingly, bikini wearing jezebels splashing at the beach, for all to see. At first most women reacted with disgust as they promised they would never be caught dead doing those things. But it was too late. Women started noticing, men noticing, the new pregnancy confidence, and liking it. Men have always been attracted to confidence in a woman, and this was no different. Suddenly there was nothing more beautiful than a woman who was ripe with a new life growing inside of her. Boundaries were broken, and taboos where cast out, like the women they had cast out years before.
Currently there are dating sites, modeling jobs, and even a market for porn dedicated to the pregnant woman. It seems the more a woman embraces her body and what it is doing, the more we can not get enough of her. It is now a time in a woman’s life when she is considered to be at her most attractive. There is no shortage of men ready, willing, and able to date and marry a pregnant woman. This is an amazing time to be an amazing woman with child.