My major dislike of Mpreg is the ridiculous implausibility and the fact that writers fall back on 'well, they're magic, of course it's possible!' as a justification.
Yes, exactly!
There's the whole biology of it because there's no egg and therre's a few million sperm of only the, er, ejaculator - their sperm doesn't even... intermingle. Male Ejaculate doesn't self-ejaculate inside the arse - so the sperm of the two men doesn't even mingle, the so-called child would be the child of only one, (and then wouldn't that sort of be incest?) and considering the purpose of the rectum/arse whatever you wish to call it - it's primary biological function is evacuation. Does the guy not shit for 9 months or do they have to attach a colostomy bag?
Not to mention that the female X egg has more biological materiel than the male X sperm does, two Y's connecting is not viable, and with millions of them swimming around, which of them joins? How are there not half a million zygotes trying to implant themselves? (Not that they'd be viable because again, missing materiel) Where does it implant? (See biological function of the anus and colon and absence of rich nutrient lining of uterus, the fact that men don't menstruate every four weeks out of their arses, and the rectum is not at all elastic like the uterus.)
I just can't read it knowing about the totally impossible biology of it. Because magic or no magic, it's still a human body. I've seen science fiction story where male aliens are the ones who become impregnated, but the key is that they are aliens and their biology is designed that way. And yes, I know wizards can turn tortoises into teapots and wizards themselves can become animals, and I accept that just fine. But as far as we know, they're still human and procreate the same way we do.
Me, I've never seen an MPreg story where they magic one guy a vagina and cervix and uterus and fallopian tubes and ovaries - and then what do you do? Magic the sperm into eggs? It would obviously require forethought and planning and complicated spells because a sperm isn't going to spontaneously transform itself, not to mention, where would it? Inside the testes? It wouldn't fit through the tubes to get out, and even if it could, how would it get into the anus? Spontaneous Apparation? Although if you're clever you just transfigure the testes into ovaries and the vas defrans and all those tubey bits into fallopian tubes... *ouch*
I know people don't tend to write about the biology of it. In the MPregs I dared to read, they have anal sex and... Oops! But me - I can't ignore the biology. I can't suspend my disbelief. I suppose I accept it more in a magical universe like Harry Potter, but when I hear about people writing BackStreet Boys or N'Sync Mpreg, my brain just goes 'splodey.
On the other hand, for me, it has nothing to do with the pregnancy aspect at all. If men want to give birth and have tons of babies, be my guest. I hope the epidural works for ya. (Or maybe not, depending on who it is! *g*)
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Yes, exactly!
There's the whole biology of it because there's no egg and therre's a few million sperm of only the, er, ejaculator - their sperm doesn't even... intermingle. Male Ejaculate doesn't self-ejaculate inside the arse - so the sperm of the two men doesn't even mingle, the so-called child would be the child of only one, (and then wouldn't that sort of be incest?) and considering the purpose of the rectum/arse whatever you wish to call it - it's primary biological function is evacuation. Does the guy not shit for 9 months or do they have to attach a colostomy bag?
Not to mention that the female X egg has more biological materiel than the male X sperm does, two Y's connecting is not viable, and with millions of them swimming around, which of them joins? How are there not half a million zygotes trying to implant themselves? (Not that they'd be viable because again, missing materiel) Where does it implant? (See biological function of the anus and colon and absence of rich nutrient lining of uterus, the fact that men don't menstruate every four weeks out of their arses, and the rectum is not at all elastic like the uterus.)
I just can't read it knowing about the totally impossible biology of it. Because magic or no magic, it's still a human body. I've seen science fiction story where male aliens are the ones who become impregnated, but the key is that they are aliens and their biology is designed that way. And yes, I know wizards can turn tortoises into teapots and wizards themselves can become animals, and I accept that just fine. But as far as we know, they're still human and procreate the same way we do.
Me, I've never seen an MPreg story where they magic one guy a vagina and cervix and uterus and fallopian tubes and ovaries - and then what do you do? Magic the sperm into eggs? It would obviously require forethought and planning and complicated spells because a sperm isn't going to spontaneously transform itself, not to mention, where would it? Inside the testes? It wouldn't fit through the tubes to get out, and even if it could, how would it get into the anus? Spontaneous Apparation? Although if you're clever you just transfigure the testes into ovaries and the vas defrans and all those tubey bits into fallopian tubes... *ouch*
I know people don't tend to write about the biology of it. In the MPregs I dared to read, they have anal sex and... Oops! But me - I can't ignore the biology. I can't suspend my disbelief. I suppose I accept it more in a magical universe like Harry Potter, but when I hear about people writing BackStreet Boys or N'Sync Mpreg, my brain just goes 'splodey.
On the other hand, for me, it has nothing to do with the pregnancy aspect at all. If men want to give birth and have tons of babies, be my guest. I hope the epidural works for ya. (Or maybe not, depending on who it is! *g*)