I like mpreg because it's sexy, and I don't feel the need to justify it any further than that, especially not in a fandom which frequently indulges in watersports, vomitplay, and bestiality. I don't ask people who read and write those fics why they like them ... why does it matter? It's something they enjoy. It doesn't hurt anybody. The end.
There is plenty of bad mpreg out there (which is kind of fun to read, in my opinion, like most badfic). There's plenty of horrible fic of all sorts in existence. There are also many very well written mpregs out there, the classic being "A Life More Ordinary" by Lexin.
Yes, when you have a reasonably intelligent writer at the helm, mpreg can be explained adequately using magic. I also enjoy genderbending fic a lot, which can also incorporate (m?)preg and I'm interested androgyny. Not everything has to be confined to one gender or another.
As for its exclusion of women ... let me tell you. This is a problem that is pervasive in ALL of slash fiction, and mpreg is not the source of it. (Honestly, if a way were determined that men could have babies in the real world, I'd be all for it. Let them have some of the trouble. Fuck sacred womenhood. Not all women want to have babies, you know.) I'm sure many of the female readers of slashfic who object to mpreg for this reason probably don't bat an eyelash at the million ways that female characters are demonized in slash fiction. Usually it's the good old "Tonks/Ginny/Narcissa is obsessed with Remus/Harry/Lucius, who is in turn in love with Sirus/Draco/Snape, and so she comes up with a crazy scheme to murder the other man." Or Ginny goes crazy and turns out to be possessed by Voldemort, or Tonks is really Peter Pettigrew using Polyjuice, etc. Or any and all of them are evil SLUTS. The correlation between sexism in slash and mpreg is "All (?) mpreg is slash, some slash is sexist; therefore, some mpreg is sexist, but not all mpreg is sexist." Maybe people should deal with the sexism problem in slash in general instead of just pointing to mpreg as being a problem area.
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There is plenty of bad mpreg out there (which is kind of fun to read, in my opinion, like most badfic). There's plenty of horrible fic of all sorts in existence. There are also many very well written mpregs out there, the classic being "A Life More Ordinary" by Lexin.
Yes, when you have a reasonably intelligent writer at the helm, mpreg can be explained adequately using magic. I also enjoy genderbending fic a lot, which can also incorporate (m?)preg and I'm interested androgyny. Not everything has to be confined to one gender or another.
As for its exclusion of women ... let me tell you. This is a problem that is pervasive in ALL of slash fiction, and mpreg is not the source of it. (Honestly, if a way were determined that men could have babies in the real world, I'd be all for it. Let them have some of the trouble. Fuck sacred womenhood. Not all women want to have babies, you know.) I'm sure many of the female readers of slashfic who object to mpreg for this reason probably don't bat an eyelash at the million ways that female characters are demonized in slash fiction. Usually it's the good old "Tonks/Ginny/Narcissa is obsessed with Remus/Harry/Lucius, who is in turn in love with Sirus/Draco/Snape, and so she comes up with a crazy scheme to murder the other man." Or Ginny goes crazy and turns out to be possessed by Voldemort, or Tonks is really Peter Pettigrew using Polyjuice, etc. Or any and all of them are evil SLUTS. The correlation between sexism in slash and mpreg is "All (?) mpreg is slash, some slash is sexist; therefore, some mpreg is sexist, but not all mpreg is sexist." Maybe people should deal with the sexism problem in slash in general instead of just pointing to mpreg as being a problem area.