Man Gets Pregnant Playing MMORPG

Male MMORPGamers beware! If youÂ’re not careful you could end up like Chris Dahlen: barefoot and pregnant! Of course it all happened (it can only happen) within Second Life, an MMOG with more than 165,000 users. It seems some Second Life citizens started  birth clinics which provide complete avatar pregnancy-to-birth experience in just a month and a half (nine months may be more realistic but is a tad too long). The price of the motherhood experience is $3,500 in Lindens – about $12 in the real world.

“I don’t care if my giving birth just now felt only a thousandth as real as the real thing: My hands are shaking, my head is spinning, and there’s sweat on my brow. I’m lying in the “recovery” room in the birth clinic while my new baby lies in a crib in the nursery down the hall. I can’t wait to see her. That’s right — it’s a girl,” writes Dahlen in his three part articles I Was an Online Mother. “I was still shaking when I logged off. What a crazy, astounding feeling: I brought a life into that world.”

Amazingly, the pregnancy kits work for both female and male avatars. Since Dahlen used a female persona, we don’t know how male avatars deal with the birthing process, but we can sum it up in one word; “Ouch!”

Male MMORPGamers beware! If youÂ’re not careful you could end up like Chris Dahlen: barefoot and pregnant! Of course it all happened (it can only happen) within Second Life, an MMOG with more than 165,000 users. It seems some Second Life citizens started  birth clinics which provide complete avatar pregnancy-to-birth experience in just a month and a half (nine months may be more realistic but is a tad too long). The price of the motherhood experience is $3,500 in Lindens – about $12 in the real world.

“I don’t care if my giving birth just now felt only a thousandth as real as the real thing: My hands are shaking, my head is spinning, and there’s sweat on my brow. I’m lying in the “recovery” room in the birth clinic while my new baby lies in a crib in the nursery down the hall. I can’t wait to see her. That’s right — it’s a girl,” writes Dahlen in his three part articles I Was an Online Mother. “I was still shaking when I logged off. What a crazy, astounding feeling: I brought a life into that world.”

Amazingly, the pregnancy kits work for both female and male avatars. Since Dahlen used a female persona, we don’t know how male avatars deal with the birthing process, but we can sum it up in one word; “Ouch!”