Giving a teen lesbian an unplanned pregnancy...

I was thinking a LGBT protagonist would be a good twist on the typical teen pregnancy plot line. What would be a good way to justify it?

Edit: umm you're imagining the 'have' in the title by the way :S

edit edit: Thank you moderator :3

edited 5th Nov '11 1:47:17 PM by joeyjojo

Have you considered letting your heroine be captured by Kagami Mikage?

Whatever you do, don't do rape.

The obvious reason is closeted, and has sex with a male.

Really, there are only so many ways you can have it out.

A drunken bender at a party (she is teen after all) and there ya go.

There is always the old "curiosity killed the cat" option...

edited 5th Nov '11 10:29:13 AM by JHM

Discrimination leading to an urge to try and pretend/prove she's straight?

Oh, oh, oh! She doesn't actually know! Like, as far as she knows, she's never had sex with a man, but she gets pregnant anyways!

Major Tom: ...so wait, first you say don't do rape, but then you say do that? You realize that is a form of rape, right?

@ Manga Maniac: that's probably the most realistic scenario, but I like the don't like the idea of going down the Gayngst root.

@Mr AHR: not necessarily, while being drunk impairs your judgment most people would agree it's does not invalid basic personal choice and responsibility.

RIghtly or wrongly the average reader would take it as proof she is 'really' straight', In vino verita.

edited 5th Nov '11 2:02:58 PM by joeyjojo

Legally, it's considered rape in multiple areas, including most if not all college campuses.

Well then by that argument getting drunk means that I can't be held account if I rape anyone.

I'm just telling you the law man. Having sex with someone who is drunk is seen as a form of not getting consent.

Fair enough, It's not something I do in case anyone was wondering

It's ridiculously unlikely and would need some fairly Contrived Coincidences to happen, but what about her going to a medical clinic for a check up and accidentally getting implanted with a sterile couple's embryo?

As you said, it's ridiculous. How comedic is the story you are thinking of?

Umm about glee season one level of ridiculousness. That's fairly out there.

It is a great sauce of conflict you have to give it that

edited 5th Nov '11 3:08:02 PM by joeyjojo

Umm... That's a tricky one.

• If It's You, It's Okay.

• Sexsomnia.

• Prostitution.

• Malicious artificial insemination in her sleep.

• Accident involving a scientific experiment, spilling it on her wounds. A virus carrying human genes infects her egg?

• There are lizards that reproduce asexually. She's a mutant with the same ability.

• A hiccup in the space-time continuum switched some body parts between her and her alternate-universe incarnation.

• Visitation by a higher being/aliens/The Fair Folk/who knows.

Never seen glee, but looks fairly silly. In that case sure, why not.

a contact based pantheon that result in pregnancy... Omigod! It's wrost then that moive contagion.

which is saying something lol,

edited 5th Nov '11 3:17:42 PM by joeyjojo

The Fundamentalist artificially inseminated her in the misguided hope that it would teach her how wonderful pregnancy (and thus heterosexuality) is?

Depending on circumstances and jurisdiction yes. However the idea I said is more along the lines of she's at a party, had a few too many to drink and then via challenge or otherwise consensual activity ended up in intercourse.

You'd be surprised how easily that writes itself when you know how alcohol loosens up people's restraints and tastes.

There is also the fact that both participants would be drunk in the case of a party, which fudges the lines greatly.

Alternatively, put your character in a post apocalyptic environment where all lesbians are branded as criminals and those capable of childbearing are forced into surrogate motherhood for the mostly-sterile political elite as an alternate form of punishment.

That isn't quite the kind of thing that invokes light-hearted comedy in my mind.

Sure it does. You just have to think of a way to make it zany enough.