can a man get up the duff?

Answer 1

Yes of course he can. He gestates the foetus in a cardboard box. Thanks John Cleese.

Answer 2

At the moment it's a no, they do not have the female hormone, they have no womb, ovaries etc.

That's not to say that one day this won't happen though, science is evolving, re-gender assignments are happening all the time and I'm sure one day there will be a breakthrough in this. At least my fingers are crossed and I'm hoping lol.

Answer 3

Physically it's impossible, however, one might say that bearing in mind the increasing trend of "test-tube" babies, how about if man uses the "egg & sperm" WITHIN him, however, in order for the mixture of "egg & sperm" to develop, WOMB is needed which men clearly lacks & hence it's simply unimaginable to think of men getting up the duff.

Mind you, there's some black comedy movie in Hollywood whereby a man ends-up giving birth to a baby.

Answer 4

The phrase "up the duff" doesn't actually exist where I'm from so I would guess no....

Answer 5

Of course he can - he lays a lovely wee egg and sits on it for nine months until it hatches. Men usually spend all their time sitting on their backside so he really doesn't notice the difference.

Answer 6

No he can't. However, men do get symptoms of pregnancy. Like morning sickness, back ache, labour pains and cravings. Believe me this is true especially if he and his partner are soul mates.

Answer 7

Male pregnancy in humans has been limited to the realms of speculation, science fiction and comedy, as the phenomenon would be a biological impossibility under traditional circumstances.


Ficticious Male pregnancy poster released by the Family Planning Association of Victoria (Australia) from the 1970's.Since men lack a womb, alternative measures would have to be made for an ectopic pregnancy. Fertilization would likely be done in vitro by implantation into the abdominal cavity, and starting the process would require the father to take female hormones — blurring the line between the sexes, from some viewpoints. Delivery would be done by caesarean section.

Some female-to-male transsexuals who interrupt hormone treatments can become pregnant, while still identifying and living as male — this is possible for individuals who still have functioning ovaries.[1] For example, Matt Rice (ex-partner of writer Patrick Califia), bore a child by artificial insemination.[2] From an identity standpoint, this could be considered a "male pregnancy", even though female physiology was involved. Should treatment of male-to-female transsexuals reach a point where post-operative females can become fertile, persons who were born biologically male (though identifying and living as female) could bear children, although this is currently impossible.

Some intersex people with XY chromosomes develop entirely female bodies and, if the individual develops a uterus, in vitro fertilization is possible.[3] This person would therefore be pregnant despite having a Y chromosome (which is usually associated with males).

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Possible science of a human male pregnancy
Oral doses of female hormones would be administered to the man to make him receptive to the pregnancy. In vitro fertilization techniques would be used to induce an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under or into the peritoneum.

Once implantation is complete, the man would stop taking hormones, because the pregnancy itself would take over. The embryo would secrete sufficient hormones to maintain its own growth and development.

The delivery will require open surgery (Cesarean section) to remove the baby and the placenta. Removal of the placenta would be the real danger because it forms such intimate connections with surrounding blood vessels that a massive hemorrhage would be likely. Implantation may also involve other structures in the abdomen, including the bowel and it is possible that parts of other organs might have to be removed. Several physicians who are well-accustomed to advanced and dangerous forms of ectopic pregnancies would have to be on-hand to handle any complication.

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In other species
A male seahorse takes and fertilises the ovum of the female, then bears the offspring. Pipefishes and seahorses are the only species in the animal kingdom to which the term "male pregnancy" has been applied.[4]

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In mythology
Various mythologies have featured male characters birthing, but such events typically either take place in an entirely different fashion than an ordinary female pregnancy, such as Athena springing fully-formed from Zeus's forehead, or when the character has been rendered female in some way, such as the shapeshifter Loki turning into a mare to distract a stallion and ending up giving birth to Sleipnir.

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In popular culture
Two comedy films centered around the theme of such an event in humans, Rabbit Test (1978) and Junior (1994), have been released. The latter's attempts are scientifically somewhat feasible; the former ignores the matter completely. Television episodes and series have featured such pregnancies as a result of alien-human interaction, including Futurama, American Dad!, Alien Nation and the episode "Unexpected" of Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as in the computer game The Sims 2. In an episode of Charmed, Leo becomes pregnant with Piper's baby for a short term; in an episode of Red Dwarf, Lister becomes pregnant after visiting a parallel universe where male and female are reversed and he has sex with his counterpart; and an episode of Sliders depicts a world where men carry children to term because women lost the ability in a catastrophic disaster.

Thematically, pregnancy can be related to issues of parasitism and gender.[citation needed] Some science fiction writers have picked up on these issues, in "cross-gender" themes—e.g., Octavia Butler's Bloodchild. Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos features an all-male society in which men use artificial wombs, but experience many of the psychological effects of pregnancy (anticipation, anxiety, etc.). In Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, neither men nor women get pregnant, but men may take drugs to lactate and nurse the infant; the experience of "pregnancy" and the woman-only experience of nursing were sacrificed for gender equality.[5] In the Internet comedy series Red vs. Blue, the character of Tucker is impregnated by a parasitic embryo from an alien creature.

Male pregnancy is not infrequently seen in fan fiction; such stories may be denoted as "mpreg", a term coined by two writers under the pseudonyms of Taleya Joinson and Texas Ranger, who created and maintained what is believed to be the first fan fiction archive dedicated to stories of this genre in 1998. The pregnancies may be the result of advanced medical technology (e.g., experiments on Mulder from The X-Files); mystical pregnancies; or are unexplained.

Answer 8

No because they haven't got a womb, or ovaries, or fallopian tubes, all fairly necessary ingreadients in becoming pregnant!

Answer 9

ohhhh can u imagine it, men are bad enough with a cold never mind pregnancy and labour pains i doubt if there would even be one child to a family lol

Answer 10

no but hopefully one day in the future they will get away around it so that men can truly know what women go through