Prompts can come from anywhere

[deelaundry]

On last night's Colbert Report, he mentioned mpreg, saying, "Teenage boys, you can get pregnant too. Sometimes it goes back up and you grow a baby in your ball sack."

This image of mpreg physiology is one I had never considered. O_O XD \o/

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Dunno, exterior fetal development...I've played with a couple of ideas like that, although positioning it in the groin would be impractical for a number of reasons, not the least of which would be that it'd hamper the ability for the mother to protect the gestating fetus.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Plus the whole giant scrotum thing. And even if the vas deferens went two ways, how would the egg get in there?

It's quite hilarious to think about, though. XD XD

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

It all starts out as the same basic plumbing, which in humans defaults to female. Having the ovary hang outside the body is mostly a question of placement of the necessary tubes for flow. Although sperm hangs outside because it's delicate stuff and needs the cooling from normal body temperature, and ovaries are sturdier and can stay inside.

I'm probably over-thinking things again.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

The pregnant man could wear an expandable truss, similar to one for an inguinal hernia, for support and protection.

Then again, the increased heat in the scrotum would reduce sperm production, possibly to the point of infertility; and then there'd be the question of testicular torsion or crushing under the pressure. This form of mpreg might be a one-time-only event.

I imagine one could also liken it to elephantiasis with the scrotal swelling.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Restricted mobility would be another disadvantage - without the ability to protect and care for oneself, the one doing the gestating is at extreme risk. It wouldn't be long before bed rest would be enforced not out of necessity, but as the only option.

Not to mention wondering how the fetus would exit the body.

[calamitysxchild.livejournal.com]

He's probably written fanfiction ;)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

No doubt! If anyone was going to troll RPS communities, I bet it'd be him. Heh.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I remember reading an article about a man with an untreated inguinal hernia. About half his intestine ended up in his scrotum. Why not have a fetus grow in the sac too? :-D

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee hee!

[sabinetzin]

WHAT HAS BEEN THOUGHT CAN NEVER BE UNTHOUGHT.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

MY APOLOGIES

IT'S STEPHEN COLBERT'S FAULT, THOUGH

[chickloveslotr.livejournal.com]

LOLZ I saw that!
I was like "WTF!??!? I LOVE YOUUUU"
XD

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

It made me laugh so hard! XD XD XD

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

This makes my testicles hurt, and I don't even have testicles.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

INORITE? (to use the vernacular)

[californiaquail.livejournal.com]

Now I really wish I'd seen that. But only because I know that he could say it and make it sound like was telling the truth. LOL.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

www.colbertnation.com is where I watch The Colbert Report. I think I remember you have a slow connection, though, so I don't know if you can see it. The reference is in this segment (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/229656/june-04-2009/the-word---just-don-t-do-it), in a bit on abstinence-only sex ed. LOL

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

All this wonderful dialogue aside: I can't get the word picture out of my head of how they'll be walking as their baby-laden scrots grow larger. *cracks up*

We think we have it bad...oh my ribs hurt!!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Isn't it a hilarious picture? So funny.

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

LOL I can just imagine a dumb teenage boy turning up as a clinic patient claiming this is happening to him. House's reaction....

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

or

Teenage boy: *extremely nervous and stressed out* I think I've got cancer...

House: *examines* *cheerful* Nope.

Teenage boy: *wailing* Then why is it so biiiiig?

House: You're pregnant.

Teenage boy: *faints*

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

This immediately made me think of Buster Gonad (the boy with the unfeasibly large testicles) from the UK not-for-children comic:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/scaryduck/blog2/bustergonad.gif

He normally carries them in a wheelbarrow...

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

This is a very disturbing image...

[ceruleanshipper.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I've gone through Wikipedia and found out that the uterus is developed from a fetus's Muellerian ducts (which both male and female fetuses have, but male fetuses have theirs degrade... usually).

So it's not completely implausible that a normal-appearing male could have retained his Muellerian ducts during fetal development and those ducts could have become a very small uterus. During puberty he doesn't produce enough estrogen for the uterus to build up tissue; consequently he doesn't menstruate and there's no sign that he has the uterus if he doesn't have an MRI. As an adult, either:
1. He decides to change sex and begins to take estrogen, which makes her uterus develop and a lining build up. Since her estrogen intake is constant, she doesn't menstruate (kind of like taking those four-periods-a-year birth control pills). She still enjoys penis-in-vagina sex with cisgender women. Somehow, her partner's vaginal contractions cause her partner's egg to travel up her urethra and into her uterus, which has some sperm left over from her last ejaculation. An embryo forms, and it attaches to her uterine wall before she ejaculates. Granted, this isn't really mpreg, because the pregnant person is a transgender woman, but it's still an XY person with male genitalia being pregnant.
or -
2. He volunteers for a drug trial and begins taking an estrogenic drug. The above scenario happens, with pronouns changed.

I'm not sure where the Mullerian ducts would reside - possibly in the scrotum, but I think probably more around the prostate neighborhood.

[ceruleanshipper.livejournal.com]

Oooh, it's a real condition!

Persistent Muellerian duct syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_M%C3%BCllerian_duct_syndrome). It often presents with infertility because the Muellerian ducts get tangled up with the vas deferens - but not always. And it looks like the protouterus lives around the prostate. The patient would have probably had undescended testes and may have had surgery to make them descend, but the protouterus may not have descended at this point.

Someone needs to write this.