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Ho-kay, I just found the Snape MPREG archive. Everybody out of the pool.

*flees*

To the lifeboats! Women and children and cute young men first!

Snape MPreg gets its whole own archive? Glenda wept, I guess there's some guys who've just 'got it'...

Come to that, why do I seem to be stumbling into MPreg fiction (fan- or not) lately? This a new craze swelling up, we wonder?

The Harry Potter fandom should come with a bottle of brain-bleach.

GAH!!

Didn't need reminding of that icky little sub-genre. Thanks. >.<

into another pool of my black bitter soul tears of anguish.

Suddenly realising her hypocrisy, Kate hides her tape of Quantum Leap's 8 1/2 Months.

Headline in today's Sydney Morning Herald: "Ill-conceived: IVF now used too much, expert says".

I'm intrigued. Mpreg isn't about fatherhood per se - there's plenty of fanfic on that topic, even for the Professor. A lot of the fun of the QL episode was watching Sam suffer the pangs of pregnancy, but he gets to leap out before we get to the problem of just how the baby's going to make its appearance. Is mpreg about revenge? About making men understand? About feminising them (and/or humiliating them)? How does this relate to slash?

Cut and paste this URL for G-rated cuteness:
http://www.geocities.com/snapempreg/art/blacsin1.jpg

At first I was a bit surprised/intrigued at the strength of the sub-genre... then I thought, cruk, this is the Internet, after all.

I think it can be about any number of things. I've seen examples that were definitely about humiliating and/or taking revenge on men. I actually thing some of these ended up saying just as much 'for' the author's opinion of women, regardless of their gender (the author's, that is).

On the other hand there are tales that might even be described as sensitive, as a man Truly Comes To Understand(tm) what bearing a child is all about.

The slash? I guess there someone just thinks, Hey, if a woman can get pregnant by having sex with a man, then why not... Though strangely, I haven't seen any (fan)fiction online where two women getting intimate results in conception. (Doesn't that make as much (or as little, really) sense as the other?)

Or maybe some writers are just all, 'Man getting knocked up? Hey, tha's funny!' :)

Though strangely, I haven't seen any (fan)fiction online where two women getting intimate results in conception.

This is the province of published feminist SF. ;-)

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