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Pregnant Men and More





Ling Mingwei, a New York City-based artist, designed the Web site malepregnancy.com which includes video and tales of the first male pregnancy in the world.



If a user clicks on "Current Vitals" he is greeted with this update on Mingwei's condition: "Mr. Lee's pregnancy has been remarkably normal.



"Early in the pregnancy, he experienced some severe facial acne but otherwise, no significant medical problems. Mr. Lee's blood pressure is normal and his fundal height is now at 37cm from the symphysis pubis. He is starting to experience some minor hemorrhoids and incontinence." It's all attributed to Elizabeth Preatner, M.D., Ph.D., GenoChoice Laboratory.



BonsaiKitten.com purports to be "dedicated to preserving the long lost [Oriental] art of body modification in housepets" (by raising them inside jars so that they remain small even when mature and their bodies take on the contours of the vessel used).



It's actually a bit of fictional humor put up just before the end of the year 2000 by some MIT grad students to satirize "the human belief of nature as commodity" and to "punish the hypocritical and easily offended by upsetting them, and to amuse those who understand."

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