Depends on if it's done for farce, smut, or plot purposes.
Farce is obvious: it's funny to see a guy get pregnant and deal with the accompanying physical and emotional changes. Also it's a bit of revenge. ;-)
Smut: well, it's a kink, innit? Plays well with a lot of cross-gender, body transformation, and other related areas of kink. Forbidden, wrong, yet strangely intriguing, as the saying goes.
Plot: In a way it's the ultimate realization of the gender-boundary smashing that is slash. Take the tendency for a top/bottom dynamic in a m/m pairing, where the bottom is very often the more passive/sensitive/geeky/"feminine" of the two. Combine that with the idea that a lot of the emotional side of slash is the creation of a romantic (even married) couple. What do couples do? They have children. The combination of the two lovers into a new life is that ultimate realization of love. In a way, it's only natural.
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Date: 2004-07-19 04:45 pm (UTC)Farce is obvious: it's funny to see a guy get pregnant and deal with the accompanying physical and emotional changes. Also it's a bit of revenge. ;-)
Smut: well, it's a kink, innit? Plays well with a lot of cross-gender, body transformation, and other related areas of kink. Forbidden, wrong, yet strangely intriguing, as the saying goes.
Plot: In a way it's the ultimate realization of the gender-boundary smashing that is slash. Take the tendency for a top/bottom dynamic in a m/m pairing, where the bottom is very often the more passive/sensitive/geeky/"feminine" of the two. Combine that with the idea that a lot of the emotional side of slash is the creation of a romantic (even married) couple. What do couples do? They have children. The combination of the two lovers into a new life is that ultimate realization of love. In a way, it's only natural.
How's that?