If it were possible for human males to become pregnant and bear a healthy child just like normal, what would be your stance?
If it were possible I would be willing to do it, or let my male companion do it.
If it were possible I would choose not to do it, but I would not be opposed to other men doing it.
Even if it were completely possible, men should not do it.
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Personally I am fascinated by pregnancy. I would do it in a heartbeat. So far I haven’t read anything that says it would be impossible. Hell I’d be willing to be the first test. This site fooled me at first. I took a few minutes for me to discover it was a fake. Mr. Lee has been expecting since 1999, and there wasn’t anything on the news about it. forehead slap!
But despite that stupid bit of “art” i think it would be an awesome feat of modern medicine.
I am not sure how it would work, but I would be willing to give it a try. With how un-biological conceptions of gender are becoming I see no reason this won’t become a possibility at some point.
Would be interesting to say the least. But in cases where the female in a relationship (or all male relationships) this would open a very interesting door.
im not looking to raise a kid on my own and the type of woman id have a baby with would be willing to give it and mother the baby so i dont see why i would.
thing is if i was rich enough to make a living and look after a kid on my own id be rich enough to get somebody else to assist.
I would love to see a man go full term and deliver. I would send him the largest bouquet of flowers for being the bravest strongest man in the world.
Just one thing though, would men have to go through the 3 to 6 weeks of bleeding and cramping afterwards?
Well, that’s hardly fair. They should at least have the whole bloody painful experience.Gosh men get it soooo easy. I say if a man wants the pregnancy he should at least be given all the plumbing we have, deal with at least a year of menustrating and then 9 months of mental and physical stress , then the obligitory 3 weeks to 6 weeks of afterbirthing crap. And I suppose men will slide right back into their prepreggers clothes too, Baaahh Not fair
would you rather be the one who had to deal with the person going through all that? It is true that i have never been pregnant, so i have no idea just how painful it really is. However with a husband and a pregnant wife, if the husband even does a half-assed job being attentive and caring for her, he has a LOT to deal with as well. The one who is pregnant is not the only one who makes sacrifices and has to suffer.
Kriswest, I want to experience that so that i CAN know how it feels.
Oh I know that, my husband was the most attentive any human could be. Heck when I was in labor He held me so close and tears were in his eyes because he could not stop my pain, He would have moved heaven and earth to be the one in pain. It takes two to have a child and you are always darn lucky if your partner is there to help. Those men that support their partner are wonderful, they do go through suffering. Um especially when the female hormones kick in.
But hey if you are going to do it, do it. I would be fully supportive of my husband if he went through it, I would not want him to though. How could I? I know what it is like. I love him and you don’t wish that sort of thing on anyone you love. I have the experience it would be better for us for me just to handle it. Moot point though, we can’t have anymore kids. One was all we can have. The durn boy broke the mold so to speak.
Great poll - followed by interesting discussion on a real issue - shit whats happening to ILP - quickly some one write some patent nonsense by/about Nietzsche
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ps i will fight for your right to bear babies but I for one will not be queuing up to actually assert me right!
Like I said to those men that would do it whole hog, I would send the largest bouquet of flowers to them. It would be a brave thing to face and do. Prisoners have had less physical torture. Heck, I whimped out and demanded drugs. I thought I could tough it out. But, then again mine was a forced delivery. If you gents do it, get those drugs. Trust me on this. Enjoy the experience, not live the pain. The child and the wonder are what is truly important.
So, your fascination is merit enough?
Someone else’s life is non-factor?
This isn’t about YOU, this is about creating a life in some kind of situation. Is that life going to be good or bad? Is that life going to be fulfilled or is it going to be wasted?
Correct, because:
Babies need breast-milk in order to develop a healthy and normal immune-system amoung many other things.
Male bodies would not have the correct hormone balance or internal-organs for childbirth.
The whole idea is unnatural and fucked.
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It would only work properly if a male was gene-modded into a hermaphrodyte properly.
I’m so surprised by how people voted so-far.
You guys are nyphos!
For the record, this sort of medical feat has not been attempted and is purely speculation and theory.
Fetuses have survived completely outside the uterus before. In a female it is most definitely possible to carry a child to term with the placenta inside the abdominal cavity, attached to the other organs and whatnot. As far as I can tell the male pregnancy operation would simply entail a fertilized egg being surgically implanted in the abdominal cavity. Then when the timer goes off, the baby would be removed by cesarean section, just like how a female would undergo that process.
True there would be the major requirement of hormones to sustain the pregnancy. But giving a person doses of the opposite sex’s hormones on a regular basis is not unheard of. It is fairly common practice. Why wouldn’t it work for the male to receive the right hormones for carrying a child.
Breast milk is not consumed by every baby. Sure it is highly beneficial, but it is not a requirement for life. Cannot a female (like the male’s wife) be given hormones to stimulate her mammary glands to provide milk for the baby? After all, she would be the genetic mother of the baby. Who better than to have her as the provider of the milk?
I think this issue is not so much a medical one as it is an ethical one. I can understand when people say that there would be a deterioration in social/biological order on a scale not yet comprehendible by human kind. For one thing, I would bet that such a procedure would be costly, and a very rare occurance even if it was perfectly doable with no adverse consequences.
I don’t know. As I said, I’m fascinated by pregnancy and have always admired beyond comprehension females that choose to become pregnant and raise children. It is a beautiful thing. I want (purely out of my own inherent curiosity) to be able to do that too. Maybe I’m a chimera, and my hidden set of DNA is actually female.
forehead slap!
No.
