Random Rambling about Mpreg (again)
Jun. 10th, 2008 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opengoalFirst I have to declare interest - Mpreg is one of my kinks. At one point, I like it so much that I'll read any mpreg regardless which fandom it's in or whether I know the characters at all. And I've read them for quite a few years now but they never stop making me wonder why this genre exists.
I guess one of the big questions that keep bugging me is that, compared with incest or most other kinks, there doesn't seem to be a literary precedent for it (Wraeththu doesn't really count, does it?). As for movies,there are Junior and Enemy Mine but that's about it.
OK, maybe female pregancy would be more common? Well, everybody has a mother so that should constitute a significant part of human experience. But I can't really think of any literary or popular fiction or movies with female pregnancy as a major theme. (Getting pregnant is another matter, though)
The closest parallel to mpreg is perhaps pregnant women porn. They are a recognized subgenre of porn, and mpreg fanart really don't look that different from them. But mpreg fics isn't just sex with pregnant men. In fact, a huge part of the usual mpreg fic is about the bitching and the suffering of the pregnant guys. And in the end, motherhood invariably makes the guys love their children whether they like/accept their pregnancy at the beginning.
As a feminist, I object to the motherhood instinct myth. But despite the annoyance at these ending, I still love reading mpreg. I can't quite give a rational reason for it. But for me, the appeal is not dissimilar to the warm fuzzy feeling in seeing a man holding a baby. I melt every time I see that, although I actually don't like children and would gladly have a hysterectomy if it is safe from complications. I can't even make sense of this mpreg fetish to myself. But maybe looking back at this entry someday, I'll realise just what it is that appeals to me this much.
(Edited because motherhood instinct is not mother nature. Watching Euro 2008 in a different time zone is a health hazard.)
ETA: Over at insanejournal, alchemia has posted a fascinating list of mainstream mpreg books and movies (among others). And it's a sure sign I should stop post the same thing to multiple journals.
I guess one of the big questions that keep bugging me is that, compared with incest or most other kinks, there doesn't seem to be a literary precedent for it (Wraeththu doesn't really count, does it?). As for movies,there are Junior and Enemy Mine but that's about it.
OK, maybe female pregancy would be more common? Well, everybody has a mother so that should constitute a significant part of human experience. But I can't really think of any literary or popular fiction or movies with female pregnancy as a major theme. (Getting pregnant is another matter, though)
The closest parallel to mpreg is perhaps pregnant women porn. They are a recognized subgenre of porn, and mpreg fanart really don't look that different from them. But mpreg fics isn't just sex with pregnant men. In fact, a huge part of the usual mpreg fic is about the bitching and the suffering of the pregnant guys. And in the end, motherhood invariably makes the guys love their children whether they like/accept their pregnancy at the beginning.
As a feminist, I object to the motherhood instinct myth. But despite the annoyance at these ending, I still love reading mpreg. I can't quite give a rational reason for it. But for me, the appeal is not dissimilar to the warm fuzzy feeling in seeing a man holding a baby. I melt every time I see that, although I actually don't like children and would gladly have a hysterectomy if it is safe from complications. I can't even make sense of this mpreg fetish to myself. But maybe looking back at this entry someday, I'll realise just what it is that appeals to me this much.
(Edited because motherhood instinct is not mother nature. Watching Euro 2008 in a different time zone is a health hazard.)
ETA: Over at insanejournal, alchemia has posted a fascinating list of mainstream mpreg books and movies (among others). And it's a sure sign I should stop post the same thing to multiple journals.