Ugh! Made it in under the wire, LOL. I read this the other night at work and couldn't log in to comment.
Well, I don't want to comment on all the subplots, because I don't really know how that's working out, but I had the weirdest idea, and you're gonna kill me. Haha.
You mentioned that they didn't know the mechanism of how exactly a man becomes pregnant, and you mentioned parthenogenesis, which always reminds me of turkeys. Yes, turkeys reproduce that way, LOL.
So, anyway, you know I've convinced myself I want Jensen to be having twins even that's cruel to the poor boy. Bwahahahaha! Like that should bother me. And since I was already thinking farm animals, I wondered if you know about freemartins? When cattle have twins, one of each sex, the female calf is almost always sterile because the testosterone produced by the male fetus prevents her ovaries from forming properly. That doesn't usually happen in humans because human fetuses don't share a placenta, but since you said they don't know how it all works in men, I thought that might a possible complications. I mean, if there was a chance the first female born to a male would be sterile because of a twin brother, someone might do something drastic. Hmmmmm. Anyway, just ignore me. Hahahaha. I just had to mention that. It's your fault for bringing up the turkeys.
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Date: 2008-09-28 11:17 pm (UTC)Well, I don't want to comment on all the subplots, because I don't really know how that's working out, but I had the weirdest idea, and you're gonna kill me. Haha.
You mentioned that they didn't know the mechanism of how exactly a man becomes pregnant, and you mentioned parthenogenesis, which always reminds me of turkeys. Yes, turkeys reproduce that way, LOL.
So, anyway, you know I've convinced myself I want Jensen to be having twins even that's cruel to the poor boy. Bwahahahaha! Like that should bother me. And since I was already thinking farm animals, I wondered if you know about freemartins? When cattle have twins, one of each sex, the female calf is almost always sterile because the testosterone produced by the male fetus prevents her ovaries from forming properly. That doesn't usually happen in humans because human fetuses don't share a placenta, but since you said they don't know how it all works in men, I thought that might a possible complications. I mean, if there was a chance the first female born to a male would be sterile because of a twin brother, someone might do something drastic. Hmmmmm. Anyway, just ignore me. Hahahaha. I just had to mention that. It's your fault for bringing up the turkeys.