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Old 03-28-2008, 12:10 PM   #1719
DanaC
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What I find really interesting about that, Monster, is that slang describing pregnancy is derived from male, not female physiology. That's fascinating. The last vestiges of the medieval concept of conception perhaps? The idea that the woman just houses/provides a fertile bed for, the male seed which then becomes a child.
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