Why do so many want the women pregnant?

[lovecraft68]

That's my theory with the pregnancy comments in Incest Taboo stories too, a progression of the fetish to greater heights.

It might start off slowly, with a reader interested in stories about kissing cousins, flirty stepsiblings, in-laws who like to keep things in the family or stories where there is no direct sexual contact, and is restricted to voyeurism and forbidden desires. From there it steps up a level, to step-parents and step-kids, and to the aunt/uncle/niece/nephew stories, and from there to close relatives - mother/father/son/daughter/brother/sister. But when immediate family stories no longer satisfy the kink, what is the ultimate taboo? Incest resulting in pregnancy.

Yup, just going further down the rabbit hole.

When I wrote my long sibling series I knew at some point the readers would be squawking for the sister to get pregnant seeing the story covers their relationship from late teens to their thirties, so early on I mention the sister couldn't have children due to physical trauma from abuse and he brother got a vas at the age of 18 because he didn't want to "make another one of him" as his father died in a mental institution after killing someone and he already suffered from hearing voices.

So, mental illness, abuse, violence, incest, sure, I'll write that

But I draw the line on Pregnant. I have to have some standards.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I wonder if it also has something to do with it not being a category of its own, or even listed under the description of any of them.

 

[tommyt125]

The female main characters in my stories nearly always wind up pregnant, and I even include detailed birth scenes where appropriate. That's exactly what happens to the FMC in my first and so far only I/T story on Lit.

Well, I’m definitely gonna go check out that story now lol

 

[AlinaX]

A new comment on my latest:
Her father should really find a way to fuck her pussy and then use her womb to create more sluts for himself!

I commented on someone else's story a couple of days ago where the father impregnated his daughter. It's definitely becoming a trope, and I don't think it's a nice one. It feels violent to me.

I don't have a problem with impregnation as an erotic theme, but this trope of treating women as objects to breed more objects is not erotic. It's a power and humiliation fantasy, and we know what that spells.

I don't think it's my imagination that the dark side of the force is getting stronger, particularly in MC and R/NC but also in T/I.

 

[dirk2024]

I have a WIP, a follow up to an already published story about stepsiblings. In the new story, everyone is older now, 6 or 7 years and its merely time to get pregnant and have a baby. Its not to satisfy any breeding kink as that, frankly, turns me off. Its just a cycle of life kinda thing.

It may turn the fetishers off because it won't be explicit enough.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I have a WIP, a follow up to an already published story about stepsiblings. In the new story, everyone is older now, 6 or 7 years and its merely time to get pregnant and have a baby. Its not to satisfy any breeding kink as that, frankly, turns me off. Its just a cycle of life kinda thing.

My WiP has implication that a woman is getting pregnant. We only see the sex-with-the-guy part (at least in that story, sequels are a possibility).

--Annie

 

[sirhugs]

Is pregnancy like Chekov's Gun?
Cause in stepdaughter fills In ch 4, I have a gal worried about getting preggers (a nod to the sex being unprotected). Does she have to turn up pregnant in a later chapter?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I might be wrong, but I've always seen impregnation as a power exchange kink, a way for a man to mark his ownership. Like a dog peeing to mark his territory.

In support of my theory, I've most often seen the kink in combination with maledom and harem kinks. I think some readers also associate it with the degradation of a woman who's been impregnated.

I dislike it personally very much, and it's enough for me to see the tag to make me bail out of a story. But it's a legit kink, and certainly no worse than some other.

Of course, in some stories, impregnation is simply a plot point and not a fetish, and that's an entirely different thing.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Its not to satisfy any breeding kink as that, frankly, turns me off. Its just a cycle of life kinda thing.

Becoming less and less so.

Lifestyles are changing.

Costs are only part of it.

 

[spiderboi]

I might be wrong, but I've always seen impregnation as a power exchange kink, a way for a man to mark his ownership. Like a dog peeing to mark his territory.

In support of my theory, I've most often seen the kink in combination with maledom and harem kinks. I think some readers also associate it with the degradation of a woman who's been impregnated.

I dislike it personally very much, and it's enough for me to see the tag to make me bail out of a story. But it's a legit kink, and certainly no worse than some other.

Of course, in some stories, impregnation is simply a plot point and not a fetish, and that's an entirely different thing.

To my mind, how you perceive the impregnation kink probably depends on the genre you find yourself in most of the time when you encounter it. To my own experience, I tend to read impregnation as a standard HEA check mark in a lot of stories, like Romance, Fantasy, etc. It seems like a pretty equal draw between kink and plot point in my reading.

I'm not denying that there's a power fantasy that leans more towards a primal way for a man to claim his territory in impregnation sometimes. I definitely lean into that in my own GM story that will feature mpreg in a future chapter that is very much in line with the impregnation being a mark of ownership and domination, so I'm guilty of it myself. But I have a femdomme/romance WIP where a major plot is her needing to find the ideal man to impregnate her because she's an Empress wanting the best stock for her future heir. She's in complete control of the situation and above her partner in literally every aspect, including being physically stronger because she's magically enhanced, but it's definitely pregnancy kink territory.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

To my mind, how you perceive the impregnation kink probably depends on ...

... whether the author wants to be abusive and controlling or not.

That's basically what you said.

 

[dirk2024]

But I have a femdomme/romance WIP where a major plot is her needing to find the ideal man to impregnate her because she's an Empress wanting the best stock for her future heir. She's in complete control of the situation and above her partner in literally every aspect, including being physically stronger because she's magically enhanced, but it's definitely pregnancy kink territory.

That doesn't sound like a breeding kink at all. Sounds like a reality consideration for royalty. In my mind, the breeding kink, as its usually explored on this site, is more like what @Five_Inch_Heels is saying.

 

[CalBishForNow]

Depending on the reader/writer, it is one or more of the following:

1. Pregnancy as the end game of a healthy sexual relationship/fantasy
2. Pregnancy as a fetish in itself, tied perhaps to the idea of fertility
3. A struggle to separate what can be fantastic and what is realistic...

I'd emphasize the first two, personally. Is there a meaningful distinction to be made between an "impregnation" kink and "pregnancy" kink? There's several months between one and visible signs of the other. With impregnation, it would be irresponsible not to worry about all the way things can go wrong, especially in certain categories of stories. With pregnancy, while there's a whole lifetime of things that can go wrong, it's reasonable for the writer and characters to be confident about some things.

I dunno. I hesitate to say too much, since I'm a cishet dude and still relatively new to the author side of things here. Obviously pregnancy-related plots are problematic in the Taboo/Incest and Reluctance/Nonconsent categories, but isn't everything problematic there? I think non-problematic pregnancy-related plots are possible. Or at least, I hope so.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I'd emphasize the first two, personally. Is there a meaningful distinction to be made between an "impregnation" kink and "pregnancy" kink? There's several months between one and visible signs of the other. With impregnation, it would be irresponsible not to worry about all the way things can go wrong, especially in certain categories of stories. With pregnancy, while there's a whole lifetime of things that can go wrong, it's reasonable for the writer and characters to be confident about some things.

I dunno. I hesitate to say too much, since I'm a cishet dude and still relatively new to the author side of things here. Obviously pregnancy-related plots are problematic in the Taboo/Incest and Reluctance/Nonconsent categories, but isn't everything problematic there? I think non-problematic pregnancy-related plots are possible. Or at least, I hope so.

I'd think there is a difference between the two kinks. From the feedback I've seen from the "I hope she gets pregnant" crowd it seems to be about her getting pregnant, not "I want them having sex while pregnant."

Mostly because the request always ends at pregnancy, there is no "and then..."

 

[iwatchus]

I'd emphasize the first two, personally. Is there a meaningful distinction to be made between an "impregnation" kink and "pregnancy" kink? There's several months between one and visible signs of the other. With impregnation, it would be irresponsible not to worry about all the way things can go wrong, especially in certain categories of stories. With pregnancy, while there's a whole lifetime of things that can go wrong, it's reasonable for the writer and characters to be confident about some things.

I dunno. I hesitate to say too much, since I'm a cishet dude and still relatively new to the author side of things here. Obviously pregnancy-related plots are problematic in the Taboo/Incest and Reluctance/Nonconsent categories, but isn't everything problematic there? I think non-problematic pregnancy-related plots are possible. Or at least, I hope so.

I think pregnancy as a part of the plot is fine. Women do get pregnant and it is a momentous occasion (sometimes good, sometimes not). But I am uncomfortable with fetishizing pregnancy. I know we are not supposed to kink shame, but this is one of the few I am not comfortable with.

 

[KimAwakened]

"Fetish", "power play" "control freakery".

Honestly, when people are done attaching their childish labels to matters, let's all just calm down and call a spade a spade: from the angle of both writers and readers, pregnancy is simply another hook an author can add to his/her story.

That our OP personally doesn't like that hook is neither here nor there. They themselves all but acknowledge that they are in a minority.

 

[iwatchus]

"Fetish", "power play" "control freakery".

Honestly, when people are done attaching their childish labels to matters, let's all just calm down and call a spade a spade: from the angle of both writers and readers, pregnancy is simply another hook an author can add to his/her story.

That our OP personally doesn't like that hook is neither here nor there. They themselves all but acknowledge that they are in a minority.

I have to disagree strongly. There is a difference between having a pregnancy as a part of life and sexualizing having women be pregnant. It's like saying there is n difference between incest and traditional parenting.

 

[KimAwakened]

I agree there are people on Lit. who seem to have the greatest of difficulty in separating, in their minds, the concepts of real life on the one hand and imaginative fiction on the other.

Most definitely there are...