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.

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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. ;)