Pregnant Woman
Wu Tianyang, who is five month pregnant with her second child, attends a sonogram at a local hospital in Shanghai September 12, 2014. Reuters

Traditional beliefs in creating a baby are undergoing some upheavals this May. First, scientists confirm it is possible for a woman to have fraternal twins from two different fathers if she had sex with two men within the same week.

Second, an Atlantic City urologist confirmed it is possible for a woman to get pregnant via anal sex. But lest women who engage in anal sex push the panic button, they should know that such a case is a very rare one because the woman who got pregnant from anal sex had a rare medical condition called cloacal malformation, reports the New York Post.

Such a woman lacks a uretha, vagina and anus but instead has only one hole, the cloaca. It happens only to one in 25,000 live births of female infants, said Dr Brian Steiner, urologist with the Jersey Urology Group. The condition is actually repairable through a surgery at birth.

However, in the case of the woman, the procedure was botched. Her body responded to the trauma caused by the surgery by forming a fistula, or an abnormal connection between organs, resulting in her uterus connecting with her rectum.

The result was the woman had her menstrual period rectally because while she had a vagina, it did not lead to her womb. When she became pregnant, the woman also had her spotting through the anus.

While the woman admits having anal sex exclusively prior to getting pregnant, she gave birth through a Caesarian section because her doctors believe she could not deliver the baby through her rectum. Her child is healthy, Steiner said.

Meanwhile, in the second case, it also took medical knowledge to get pregnant through oral sex. The parents involved were a female doctor, Sharon Irons, and a family physician from Chicago, Richard Phillips.

Since the couple were carrying an extramarital affair, they did not engage in sexual intercourse but always had oral sex. In one such sex session, Phillips released his semen in Irons’s mouth which she stored in her cheeks. She then secretly spit the sperm in a test tube and used it to become pregnant.

Irons sued Phillips for child support in a paternity lawsuit that he questioned. But DNA tests confirmed he sired the child. Phillips accused Irons of stealing his semen, but the court rejected his argument and said the sperm was hers, resulting in a court-ordered $800 monthly child support.

So, guys who think they are safe from responsibility by engaging only in anal or oral sex, be careful because they may be surprised by what the DNA tests would confirm.

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