In the case of the Hansel twins, what about sexual urges? Suppose one of them is turned on by Orlando Bloom. They just finish watching Pirates of the Caribbean and one is hot and bothered. Does she tell the other one to read a book while she takes matters into her own hands? Would the sensations disturb the other twin? I realize that they share control of the body (one controls the right side, the other the left) but wouldn’t a “centralized” body part like genitalia be felt by both?
And, not to be too weird (yeah, too late), but since they both had to take the drivers test, does that mean they each have a license? Do they have individual Social Security Numbers?
According to the program I saw on them, one of the twins hobbies is poking themselves and seeing which one of them feels the poke, so, apparently, they haven’t sorted out where one ends and the other one begins as of yet. IIRC, in a previous thread on the two of them, they both have seperate urges to go to the bathroom.
Great. Do they flip a coin to see which one gets to wipe?
A: It’s your turn. I did it last time!
B: Yeah, but that was number 1! This is number 2 and it seems like every time it’s my turn to wipe you decide it’s time to pinch a loaf!
A: Well I guess you better work on controlling your half of the intestine, then!
I too read a humorous two-headed short story a long time ago, but this one was about a major league pitcher. I don’t remember much about it except that with one head he’d nod a yes to the catcher’s sign and with the other, he’d shake it off.
The guy went to a masquerade party as a pair of bookends with a copy of My Son, My Son between his heads.
A pair of conjoined twin females meet a guy in a bar, and they decide to go back to their place for some fun. After making hot passionate love to one twin, he pauses, and after his refractory period passes, he engages in another session of lovemaking with the second. During this time, the first picks up a cornet sitting next to the bed and plays some soulful numbers.
Several weeks later, the twin girls are walking down the street and see the guy with whom they’d had this satisfying romp. One says to the other, “Do you think he’ll remember us?”
In the case of those young conjoined twins in Minnesota, they share a torso, have just two legs, one set of reproductive organs, and two heads (and two arms). They both own the hoo-hoo.
Does anyone else vaguely remember an SNL skit with a pair of conjoined twins, one very hot, the other rather unattractive, that went out on the line:
“Go ahead, make out with her 8 ways to sunday, I’m the one with a vagina.”
Seriously, It seems anyone dating a Hensel twin is a polygamist by default. (Not that their’s anything wrong with that.)
I just read a novelization of the life of Chang and Eng Bunker, and their explaination was that the non involved twin would put himself in a ‘mystical trance’ to give his brother and sister in law privacy for marital relations.
In the movie Freaks, the Hilton sisters do a trick with their (boyfriends?) where one is poked while the other closes her eyes. Later in that scene, one is shown enjoying a kiss the other’s receiving. They were joined at the hip, and I wouldn’t expect much sensation to pass between them. Was this actually the case or was this something they did for the show? It seems possible that even if one couldn’t feel it, it’d be possible to give some cue to the other to indicate where it was.
The Hilton sisters, of course, already put some of the questions about marriage and conjoined twins to the American system. One of them (Daisy?) wanted to get married but was not allowed to unless the other were to also be married. They eventually did get married (to different people) though I don’t think it lasted long.
Well when circulatory systems are shared, I would imagine endorphin rushes would cross over. Not sensory perception but anything chemical should affect both – for example you probably can’t just get one high on heroin with the other remaining unaffected.
