# If after sex, anyone of the two, the guy or the girl could get pregnant **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 18, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331 "2003-03-18T18:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lovey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Lovey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lovey)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/1 "2003-03-18T18:21:56Z")
Imagine if after sex, anyone of the two, the guy or the girl could get pregnant randomly! ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/2 "2003-03-18T18:27:53Z")
Randomly, in perpetuity? Can we torture them to save the world? ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/3 "2003-03-18T18:29:12Z")
Thats one Aggresive ovum! Men cant even handle the concept of a monthly menstration, much less the full implication of pregnancy. I’d say a lot more oral and anal sex will happen and more little helmets will be used. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/4 "2003-03-18T18:34:25Z")
Pregnancy would be reclassified as a sexually transmitted disease. Seriously, I so do not want a baby that the idea of me getting pregnant too adds almost nothing to the fear I have of a lover getting pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/5 "2003-03-18T18:45:55Z")
If men could get pregnant as easily as women, I predict that we’d have a lot more money spent on research into safe, effective birth control. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/6 "2003-03-18T18:50:49Z")
If it meant that homosexual sex was as effective a birth control as it is now, then I think some groups that are anti-gay wouldn’t be anywhere near so anti… ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/7 "2003-03-18T19:01:45Z")
**Retivm:** I think I understand you, at least about the possibility of a guy getting pregnant. At least if I accidentally get pregnant, I know I’m going to abort, but if the guy could get pregnant and force me to have a kid I don’t want? I would probably become celibate or do some home surgery on myself. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/8 "2003-03-18T20:49:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lovey \* > \*\*Imagine if after sex, anyone of the two, the guy or the girl could get pregnant randomly! \*\* OK, I am imagining it, now what? ---
**Author:** ![nogginhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@nogginhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogginhead)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/9 "2003-03-18T20:52:28Z")
I’m imagining if some random thrid person could get pregnant… now, what a world that would be! ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/10 "2003-03-18T21:02:43Z")
—OK, I am imagining it, now what?— Now imagine that you are from Holland. Isn’t that weird?! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/11 "2003-03-18T23:37:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Now imagine that you are from Holland. Isn’t that weird?! Weird, but in a sort of fuzzy happy way, what’s next? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/12 "2003-03-18T23:38:16Z")
Don’t expect me to imagine that I am Chris Patten; I won’t do it, you can’t make me! ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/13 "2003-03-18T23:45:43Z")
Men would have a lot more options than just abstinence, vasectomy or condoms only. That would be a good thing. In fact, there’d probably be a whole range of contraceptive options available, hopefully even 100% foolproof, fully reversible, no side effects at all contraceptives. Child support, custody arrangements, ‘traditional’ homemaker roles, contraception and attitudes to a variety of subjects would change, IMO. On a personal note, if my husband could also fall pregnant, I would not be having sex until he had a vasectomy. I trust myself to abort should I fall pregnant, but as much as I trust my partner, I couldn’t leave my fate in his hands to that extent. We’d also have a lot more oral and anal sex 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/14 "2003-03-19T02:10:06Z")
Can I imagine I’m drinking Jameson’s in a pub in County Mayo instead? ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/15 "2003-03-19T02:15:45Z")
C’mon guys! Take this seriously. There’s _nothing humorous_ about the idea of a baby being born through a penis. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/16 "2003-03-19T02:17:00Z")
Do I also get tits? ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/17 "2003-03-19T03:48:50Z")
Well I actually think there’s an interesting question in here somewhere. As much fun as it is to joke about pregnant men, I don’t think most women would be willing to relinquish their reproductive role. I was especially struck with the comments of **Goo** and **catsix** , about not wanting to give their partner that level of control (even to the point of threatening abstinence). I personally don’t see why sexual practices should change at all in this scenario. To those who claim there would be more oral an anal sex- why? Assuming there is the same possibility of pregnancy, why would the man being pregnant suddenly change things so much? Sorry to be so serious. Imagine this post was really long pregnant man joke. And the punchline is : “Because she keeps kicking me in the balls!” ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/18 "2003-03-19T04:11:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FabioClone \* > \*\*To those who claim there would be more oral an anal sex- why? Assuming there is the same possibility of pregnancy, why would the man being pregnant suddenly change things so much? \*\* Because I do not want to be a parent, whether or not the child incubates in my body or his. If it’s in my body, I can abort it, if it’s in his, I have to hope he won’t have a change of heart. I just wish contraception was better for _both_ sexes. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/19 "2003-03-19T04:30:18Z")
Yeah…a male birth control pill, that’s the ticket! Over-Population problem solved…no more kids period, no more marriages as a reult. No more paternity suits. No more child support etc. etc. Hell, sounds good to me, where’s the line start. Fuck everybody and no pregnancy, to get caught up in…y’all better be glad it’s like it is. You think men are whores now, you don’t know jacks\*\*t.😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331/20 "2003-03-19T05:11:52Z")
You mean like [Mr. Lee Mingwei](http://www.malepregnancy.com/)? \ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-after-sex-anyone-of-the-two-the-guy-or-the-girl-could-get-pregnant/162331.md?page=2)