thoughts on mpreg

[reddwarfer]

I'm a huge fan of mpreg, but man do I hate reading it and feeling like I came back from a pro-life rally. I sometimes wish that the choice to carry a child, in mpreg, was one of...wow...I'm not sure why it happened, but okay. I want to do this. Instead of the sense that parenthood will happen because of a moral reaction against "baby-killing

Comments

[tzzzz]

Maybe because you have personal experience you are slightly more sensitive to this issue than I am even though we seem to be in complete agreement in principle? It would piss me off if I felt that people saw abortion as "evil," but I'm pretty sure I've read many of the same mpreg fics you have and just didn't interpret them the same way. I think that in a way the ubiquity of bad writing in the mpreg genre allows for this. Because the fic isn't very realistic or nuanced in general and requires the reader to use a lot of imagination, I probably choose to imagine that an objection to the abortion is a personal one rather than a moralistic one. I can sympathize with the non-pregnant partner not wanting their offspring aborted, even though on a moral level I don't think they have the right to make the choice and I guess that's usually what I see.

I think that in some cases the disntinction you make between wanting a child and not wanting to kill a baby is important, but I think in other cases the line is blurred. For example if the person feels a special desire/connection to the pregnancy for some reason (not having thought about children but wanting them is one example, but in mpreg fics it is often that the unborn child is a representation of the connection to the pregnant partner, which is normally tenuous or somewhat unrequited . . . so the baby is more a representation of the "forced together by outside circumstances aka. aliens made them do it" trope than a real baby anyhow).

I like the idea of dealing with issues seriously as well. But I have a pretty heavy kink for realism as well and acknowledge that not everyone has the dual mpreg/realism kinks you and I seem to share. Clearly quite a lot of people have the mpreg/melodrama kind of kink structure instead. I guess I can't begrudge those guys what clearly floats their boat. I try to make my mpreg fics as realistic as I can, but that's pretty much all I can do.