Mpreg
| Synonyms: | Male Pregnancy | |
| See also: | kink, kidfic, Pregnancy, Story Tropes
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Mpreg refers to storylines in which men become pregnant. In canon, this is often explained by alien biology. Alien Nation and Star Trek: Enterprise both have canonical male pregnancy, and Torchwood has a reference to it as well.[1]
Male pregnancy is also a subgenre of fanfiction, occurring with some frequency in slash and only very rarely in het. The male who gets pregnant is usually human, and often the story offers no explanation for the phenomenon, although it may be explained by magic, medical experimentation, or simply the existence of an Alternate Universe where men are commonly pregnant.
Mpreg is a rather polarizing genre: Whereas some fans really like it, many fans go out of their way to avoid it, and relatively few fans are indifferent to it.
Fempreg
Fempreg refers not to all stories in which women are pregnant, but to stories in which conception is due to f/f sex. It is almost vanishingly rare and would probably not have a name if it were not for mpreg's popularity. Xena: Warrior Princess has a rare example of canonical fempreg with Callisto's ghost impregnating Xena. Another example of canonical fempreg occurs in Kotobuki Tarako's mostly mpreg-filled manga Sex Pistols (published in English language as Love Pistols). Madarame Makio, a female character, has given birth to two sons by two different fathers and has also 'fathered' two more sons with her female partner Tokashiki Karen.
Examples of Mpreg Stories
Life from the Ashes -- early, long, OTT X-Files AU with Mulder mutated to have sex in his belly-button and frequently pregnant. Written in 2000.
Misconceptions[2] by Diana Williams -- early, long (60 parts) Highlander AU with Methos becoming pregnant. As Immortals are normally incapable of bearing children, a lot of stories in the fandom tried to figure out ways to give the Immortals children. Sometimes a threesome was required, sometimes the Immortal had to be over several thousand years old, and sometimes...well, things happened. Started sometime in 2001.
The Seahorse story: Clutch, Incubate, Hatch, and Nest by Betty Plotnick, a popslash series where Justin gets knocked up and lays eggs. 2003
MPREG by Rhys -- popslash story where men-who-have-children are a group even more unusual than overpaid popstars. 2004
Bric-a-brac series by Lenore -- a surprisingly popular SGA series that may have made mpreg more respectable to fans.
I Put a Spell on You (Because You're Mine) by estrella30 she describes as "schmoopy mpreg-wingfic-incest fic", or in other words, a deliberate attempt to write crackfic and still make people like it. 2006
Roo'verse by Tzzzz, an SGA mpreg which is unusual in that the biology of the men being able to become pregnant (a subtype of humans attributed to Ancient experimentation) is that of a marsupial, so the pregnancy does not resemble a regular human pregnancy. 2009[3] Tzzzz also wrote an essay comparing different Mpreg stories in SGA fandom.[4]
Hippocampus by Micah Loden, a Sentinel crackfic gen mpreg that includes the line, "Would I do something like that, Jim? I mean, play around with something as serious as pregnancy, childbirth and gender? That would be messing with some pretty heavy karma."
MPreg Vids
Papa Don't Preach by Eunice & Greensilver -- a constructed reality Torchwood/Doctor Who vid.
Sources
- Mpreg Archive Mpreg Archive site
- Mpreg_is_good mailing list
- Supernatural Sam/Dean mpreg masterlist
- RPS Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles mpreg masterlist
- Painless j's mpreg themed list for Harry Potter
References
- ↑ For further examples of Mpreg in books, movies, television and mythology, see Alchemia's Mainstream MPreg List, 13 June 2008. (Accessed 09 November 2008)
- ↑ Diana Williams. Misconceptions (Accessed 15 December 2009)
- ↑ Tzzzz. Roo'verse (accessed 15 Dec 2009)
- ↑ Tzzzz. A review of mpreg fics in the SGA fandom, 05 December 2009. (Accessed 15 December 2009)
