# Lesbians impregnating with a turkey baster **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 22, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113 "2003-09-22T16:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/21 "2003-09-22T23:20:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Isabelle \* > \*\*Could it be THAT EASY to get pregnant with a turkey baster? \*\* It’s possible, but you have to know what you’re doing. You need to be a masterbaster. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/22 "2003-09-23T01:56:07Z")
Duke of Rat: > [@](#): > > cmkeller I wouldn’t think that a sperm donation via the act of sex would constitute infidelity…just a tool to get the job done. That’s how YOU feel, but maybe not how THEY feel. Chaim Mattis Keller ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/23 "2003-09-23T03:19:04Z")
The man’s part without a man attached. Snif. Women don’t need us. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/24 "2003-09-23T04:32:27Z")
I too thought this was an urban legend. Any chance your friend is pulling your leg? ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/25 "2003-09-23T05:27:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I too thought this was an urban legend. Any chance your friend is pulling your leg? \*\* No, I don’t think it was the leg. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/26 "2003-09-23T12:49:18Z")
This brings to mind a scene from a Christmas show of “Roseanne” where lesbian Nancy (Sandra Berhard) was explaining to Dan (John Goodman) how she and her partner (Morgan Fairchild) were going to have a baby. During the whole bit, she was basting the turkey. My sister and her partner went for in-vitro fertilization, but some of their lesbian couple friends have done the turkey-baster bit with success. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/27 "2003-09-23T13:56:54Z")
I don’t know why people think this is so impossible. It’s not like the prospective mothers choose any day of the month, it’s all carefully planned out to optimise fertility, and when it comes down to it a clean syringe is as efficient as it gets to do the job at hand. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/28 "2003-09-23T14:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > I too thought this was an urban legend. Any chance your friend is pulling your leg? Read all about how it’s done [here.](http://www.lesbian.org/moms/termin.htm) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/29 "2003-09-23T15:04:13Z")
"Could it be THAT EASY to get pregnant with a turkey baster? " Yes, I have seen it done two times, as a matter of fact, they even showed me photos. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/30 "2003-09-23T15:59:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke of Rat \* > \*\ ***cmkeller** I wouldn’t think that a sperm donation via the act of sex would constitute infidelity…just a tool to get the job done. > > And **TeaElle** along the same lines as the penis being objectionable…I don’t particularly care for a doctor’s finger shoved up my ass, but I endure it as a necessary part of a prostate exam. That’s the only point I was trying to make, it might not be the most anticipated event in the life of said lesbian, but it is a tool to get a job done. Of course I prefer the finger as opposed to say, a turkey baster. > > I wasn’t trying to raise the ire of the lesbians of the board, I just thought that it might be endured long enough to introduce some sperm into the fertility equation. \*\* Assuming you are a straight guy **Duke** ; Let’s say you really want a 50" TV, have wanted one for years. There is a guy who will give you his for free. He will drive it to your house if you let him shag you in the ass, orrrrr you can pick it up yourself. Which do you choose? 😃 [small]Disclaimer: I am 90% kidding.[/small] ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/31 "2003-09-23T16:48:16Z")
Well, since I’m biologically unable to produce a 50" TV regardless of what was shoved up my ass, I suppose I’d adopt a 50" TV. Look, I tried to bow out of this discussion gracefully after I realized I was not able to see the situation from the point of view of a lesbian looking to get pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/32 "2003-09-23T17:11:04Z")
I find **Duke of Rat** ’s question really interesting because it suggests that he has absolutely no understanding of what the act of sexual intercourse is like for a woman. This is not meant as a flame–I appreciate his responses to having had his ignorance fought. But it really makes me wonder whether it is common for men to have never considered the experience of sex from a woman’s point of view–other than the question of whether she orgasms or not. If many men don’t consider what it’s like for the woman, I wonder what implications that has with regard to things like prostitution and sex with underage girls. And FWIW, I’m a hetero female, and I’d much rather have the turkey baster than have to have sex with someone other than my husband. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/33 "2003-09-23T22:00:17Z")
Well, it’s not so much the method as the using of an actual turkey baster-I would think they’d use a medical type syringe. (Hey, I got one from my oral surgeon after I had my wisdom teeth out to keep the sockets clean!) ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/34 "2003-09-24T04:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*I find **Duke of Rat** ’s question really interesting because it suggests that he has absolutely no understanding of what the act of sexual intercourse is like for a woman. \*\* No, I think I have a decent understanding of that. It’s the sexual intercourse with a turkey baster where I got left out. It was the use of a turkey baster, as a tool, versus the use of a penis, as a tool, in the context of impregnating a woman who didn’t care for a sexual relationship with a man. How you got off onto the tangent of my understanding of sexual relations with hetero women leaves me baffled. Reproduction via tool. Period. > [@](#): > > \*\* I wonder what implications that has with regard to things like prostitution and sex with underage girls. \*\* What is that supposed to mean?? Because I (admittedly) don’t understand the turkey baster vs penis as a tool argument, I like sex with underage girls?? Or because I would (supposedly?) rather see a woman assaulted by a penis rather than a turkey baster in order to become pregnant I am a depraved pervert?? I was done with this thread, I had become as enlightened as I needed to be. Impregnating lesbians with anything is undoubtedly not in my agenda. I admitted I was in over my head, tried to apologize, pleaded ignorance of the subject matter at hand. Now with shovel in hand, I’m just digging myself deeper into a pit I don’t have any business swimming in. I know that I should just quit the thread, but when a quantum leap from artificial insemination to interest in prostitutes and underage girls is made I have to try to set the course back to my ignorance of the rituals of lesbian insemination. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/35 "2003-09-24T11:51:47Z")
Don’t worry, **DoR** , it plainly wasn’t a swipe at you: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Green Bean_ > \*\*But it really makes me wonder whether it is common for men to have never considered the experience of sex from a woman’s point of view–other than the question of whether she orgasms or not. If many men don’t consider what it’s like for the woman, I wonder what implications that has with regard to things like prostitution and sex with underage girls. \*\* That’s all of us guys, not just you. It’s because we don’t understand what sex is like from the woman’s point of view that there is such a thing as prostitution and sex with underage girls. All my life and I never knew it was so blindingly simple. We’re all equally to blame. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/36 "2003-09-24T14:26:11Z")
See, I knew it. Men really are the root of all evil. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/37 "2003-09-24T14:49:35Z")
Seriously, though, I think the disconnect in question is because of differing perceptions of the penis itself and the act of intercourse, and whether these things can just be viewed as medical instruments. Having semen injected with a baster or syringe is a purely clinical procedure. It’s not really all that different from having a pap smear, really. (Probably more comfortable, though, as the syringe wouldn’t have those _edges_ the speculum has, and nobody’s jacking around with your cervix.) It’s just a doctor’s office kind of thing, not fun but necessary. Sex, for me and many other women, is decidedly not a clinical procedure. A penis isn’t just a means of injecting semen, it’s an intimate part of another human being, and the act of sex is inextricably bound up in psychological and emotional issues. It’s impossible to seperate the part from the person and the act from the relationship. Suggesting that a lesbian “just do it” instead of undergoing a minor medical procedure gives the impression that you don’t understand how intertwined all this stuff is for a lot of women. And if you don’t understand that, it’s really hard to truly understand what sex is like for a lot of women. I think _that_’s what **Green Bean** was getting at. The closest analogy I can come up with is this: Your doctor has such an amazingly sensitive penis that he can do an adequate prostate exam with it. All other things (time, size, etc.) being equal, do you insist he strap on the gloves and do it manually, or do you let him stick his dick in your ass? I mean, really, it’s just a tool to get something done, so what’s the big deal? I have to think that a lot of men would prefer the finger. Why? Because there’s just something oogy about having a dick in you when you don’t want it, even if it is for a medical procedure. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/38 "2003-09-24T14:59:59Z")
My lesbian friends just had their second baby. I have no idea how they got pregnant either time–whether they knew the donor, or not; whether it was in vitro or au naturel or with the fabled turkey baster; whether the same donor was used for both kids; how they decided which woman would carry the baby. For awhile, I was dying to know. But then I thought, “How would you feel if people wanted to ask, say, what position you used when your son was conceived?” I’d think that was a pretty immaterial and invasive question. So I figgered it was none of my business. Which leads to my question: in these cases where you folk know the details, did the parents volunteer this information? ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/39 "2003-09-24T15:04:13Z")
My next question is 'What is the legal/moral responsibility of the donor?" Do you think they sign an agreement that says I am not financially or emotionally responsible for the child? Melissa Ethridge and her partner Julie C. used the sperm from David so and so from some really popular band. I often wondered what kind (if any) relationship he had with the two children he helped to create. They are beautiful children btw. How is that explained to children? I know telling children they are adopted is tough enough. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113/40 "2003-09-24T15:22:39Z")
I must admit to being a bit baffled by the leap from A to B offered by **Green Bean**. I’m absolutely hip to the difference between baster and live penis attached to live man. If my wife and I needed fertility assistance, I assure you that I would favor donor sperm and the syringe method over the donor performing a live insertion, and I have absolutely no problem imagining that my wife would feel the same way. But I don’t quite see the implications of this understanding, or lack thereof, for either prostitutution or sex with underaged girls. - Rick [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbians-impregnating-with-a-turkey-baster/203113.md?page=3)