fandom question I'll probably regret

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Would someone please explain the appeal of MPREG to me? Seriously, I'm not trying to be snarky. I don't get it, I probably never will get it, I don't really want to get it, but intellectually I'd like to know what's up with that.

Do you think it's sexy? If so, why? I mean, there is a sort of posession/dominant/territory thing that can be hot about normal pregnancy, so... okay.

Or is it... "wow I _hate_ this character and want to make them as miserable as popssible -- with puking!"

Seriously, help me out here.

I'm going to bed and am on set tomorrow, but really hope to wake up to oodles are horrifying responses.

Comments

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I can't say, because no one in my fandom (Doctor Who) has written an mpreg story yet.

And I'm like, DEAR GOD. HE'S AN ALIEN. FOR ALL WE KNOW, HE COULD BE LAYING EGGS IN THE BACK OF THE TARDIS.

But I can't write it, because my brainexplody when I try. Someone more shameless is going to have to do it. I simultaneously beg and facepalm.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing: DEAR GOD. HE'S AN ALIEN. FOR ALL WE KNOW, HE COULD BE LAYING EGGS IN THE BACK OF THE TARDIS. made me laugh FAR too much for a person recovering from a nasty headache. But I needed the laugh, so thanks.

And on the matter at hand. I just don't get the appeal of MPREG unless it's being written as a bit of fairly "hard" sci-fi/specfic. I don't see the appeal and I don't see the point of it as a narrative device - I agree with the general sentiment that it usually comes across as a way of not-so-subtly undermining male characters *sigh*

But I'd love to read the macho Conan MPREG story someone hypothesized elsewhere in the comments, just out of sheer curiosity. ;)