{I'm asking this question to start a conversation. This topic is not to belittle anyone's personal religious beliefs or practices in any way, so if you have anything berating to say to anyone, you can fuck right off and go somewhere else.}

With that out of the way, the reason I'm asking this question is because I want to know what this fetish (and its corresponding sub-fetishes/co-fetishes) have affected your faith or those you know within your faith circles.

Me? I am a Christian first and foremost. Specifically, I am a Seventh-day Adventist (feel free to look that up or use Wikipedia, I'm not explaining it here). Being born to a VERY religious mother and being raised by my aunt, I've had to live two separate lives with my love for pregnant women explicitly tight-lipped throughout my entire life. The internet was a big thing growing up (I'm late 20s), and my internet collection of content started growing when I was I think 10 (its been a hot minute). My aunt and uncle raised me mainly because both of my parents worked and the private school I went to was closer to my aunt's place. My uncle was former Navy, and he "ruled" his household with an iron thumb. He also worked in IT, so he limited my internet time with a digital timer (fun stuff, let me tell ya).

The cat was out of the bag about my fetish when he started getting paranoid and put "readers" into the traffic coming in and out of the house, so every site, every search, every gotdamn keystroke was pinged by a system that he could trace. Low and behold, one singular search query kept popping up, and I had been found out. Was called out of my room. Brought into my aunt's room. Laptop slammed onto the bed. "THIS IS WHAT HE'S BEEN LOOKING AT ON THE INTERNET!" my uncle shouted. My aunt looks, appalled, at the youtube video of a sexy model in a burgundy tank top and black leggings dancing next to a treadmill (if I described it correctly, you know the one), and she gives me this judgmental Maker's Finger lightning and brimstone damnation from the seven hells look that at that moment, I didn't exist. I was a fabrication of myself. I wanted to die, in that chair. So my uncle took it a step further. He blocked words, phrases, and even this very site (which I frequented from time to time). I had to constantly find ways to tiptoe around his security, use back doors, anything that could get me back in. I became somewhat of an addict within my own home.

By the time I was going to college, the restrictions were lifted in order for me to do any of my college work and, I was more focused on my gaming (playing Destiny like a second job). I've seen a couple counselors and I've never told them about my fetish. But I spent years just telling myself that its not a bad fetish and I should be embracing it rather than shaming myself over it. I don't need kind words or support, I'm almost 30, I know myself well enough now so I'm over the existential mellow drama period.

I still hold myself as a Christian and I still interact with church goers, but I still live this double life by keeping preggophilia very close to the chest. God's not going to shame me for it, and I know I'm not going to hell over it (hell doesn't exist in my opinion).

But I've always been curious. Have you had similar experiences with any of your religious beliefs or backgrounds?

None, I'm an atheist.

I'm more agnostic but I think that you should believe in whoever you want to believe in! If you're a Christian, be a Christian! If you're Muslim, be Muslim! If you worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster, then you go and be the best goddamn Flying Spaghetti Monster worshipper there is! I'm not gonna stop you, and no one else should, either!

Nothing, and I think religion/faith/spirituality/pseudoscience are all poison. I'm so sorry that happened to you, but I'm glad you've gotten out of that situation. And you're right: only humans care about shaming other humans. Screw that.

(March 22, 2021, 2:53 am)commonlyknownas the youtube video of a sexy model in a burgundy tank top and black leggings dancing next to a treadmill (if I described it correctly, you know the one)

Amanda Carrier.  Damn that's a throwback.  One of the original hot pregnant dance videos on YouTube.

As someone who has no "faith", I can only wonder how being a preggophile would affect me if I had one. I think it all depends on what each faith says its followers can or cannot partake in. This is one reason I chose to be an independent thinker. Faiths have a way of tying a person's hands and controlling them to a point they are not allowed to have fun. In fact, the very reason this topic has come up is because of the controlling nature of faiths. I believe that a free person should be allowed to do whatever he or she chooses to do as long as they are not committing a crime or infringing on someone else's space.

(March 22, 2021, 3:15 pm)doubleintegral

(March 22, 2021, 2:53 am)commonlyknownas the youtube video of a sexy model in a burgundy tank top and black leggings dancing next to a treadmill (if I described it correctly, you know the one)

Amanda Carrier.  Damn that's a throwback.  One of the original hot pregnant dance videos on YouTube.

Yeah I remember it not only because it was nice, but because she accidentally spelled it "danging" at the beginning of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0KexQBqX8

(March 22, 2021, 4:07 pm)LTKNT101 As someone who has no "faith", I can only wonder how being a preggophile would affect me if I had one. I think it all depends on what each faith says its followers can or cannot partake in. This is one reason I chose to be an independent thinker. Faiths have a way of tying a person's hands and controlling them to a point they are not allowed to have fun. In fact, the very reason this topic has come up is because of the controlling nature of faiths. I believe that a free person should be allowed to do whatever he or she chooses to do as long as they are not committing a crime or infringing on someone else's space.

I came to the same conclusion. Religions, made by humans, are susceptible to flaws. People who impose judgment upon others are propping themselves up on the same pedestal as the higher being that they worship, which in essence is not correct.

(March 22, 2021, 4:36 pm)commonlyknownas

(March 22, 2021, 4:07 pm)LTKNT101 As someone who has no "faith", I can only wonder how being a preggophile would affect me if I had one. I think it all depends on what each faith says its followers can or cannot partake in. This is one reason I chose to be an independent thinker. Faiths have a way of tying a person's hands and controlling them to a point they are not allowed to have fun. In fact, the very reason this topic has come up is because of the controlling nature of faiths. I believe that a free person should be allowed to do whatever he or she chooses to do as long as they are not committing a crime or infringing on someone else's space.

I came to the same conclusion. Religions, made by humans, are susceptible to flaws. People who impose judgment upon others are propping themselves up on the same pedestal as the higher being that they worship, which in essence is not correct.

 Well said.  Im a minister,  but I do not preach and only marry people.  I'm no better or worse than anybody else.  I look at religions (especially the many Christian religions)  as the way they interpret their holy book (Bible, Quran, Torah)

(March 22, 2021, 2:53 am)commonlyknownas {I'm asking this question to start a conversation. This topic is not to belittle anyone's personal religious beliefs or practices in any way, so if you have anything berating to say to anyone, you can fuck right off and go somewhere else.}

With that out of the way, the reason I'm asking this question is because I want to know what this fetish (and its corresponding sub-fetishes/co-fetishes) have affected your faith or those you know within your faith circles.

Me? I am a Christian first and foremost. Specifically, I am a Seventh-day Adventist (feel free to look that up or use Wikipedia, I'm not explaining it here). Being born to a VERY religious mother and being raised by my aunt, I've had to live two separate lives with my love for pregnant women explicitly tight-lipped throughout my entire life. The internet was a big thing growing up (I'm late 20s), and my internet collection of content started growing when I was I think 10 (its been a hot minute). My aunt and uncle raised me mainly because both of my parents worked and the private school I went to was closer to my aunt's place. My uncle was former Navy, and he "ruled" his household with an iron thumb. He also worked in IT, so he limited my internet time with a digital timer (fun stuff, let me tell ya).

The cat was out of the bag about my fetish when he started getting paranoid and put "readers" into the traffic coming in and out of the house, so every site, every search, every gotdamn keystroke was pinged by a system that he could trace. Low and behold, one singular search query kept popping up, and I had been found out. Was called out of my room. Brought into my aunt's room. Laptop slammed onto the bed. "THIS IS WHAT HE'S BEEN LOOKING AT ON THE INTERNET!" my uncle shouted. My aunt looks, appalled, at the youtube video of a sexy model in a burgundy tank top and black leggings dancing next to a treadmill (if I described it correctly, you know the one), and she gives me this judgmental Maker's Finger lightning and brimstone damnation from the seven hells look that at that moment, I didn't exist. I was a fabrication of myself. I wanted to die, in that chair. So my uncle took it a step further. He blocked words, phrases, and even this very site (which I frequented from time to time). I had to constantly find ways to tiptoe around his security, use back doors, anything that could get me back in. I became somewhat of an addict within my own home.

By the time I was going to college, the restrictions were lifted in order for me to do any of my college work and, I was more focused on my gaming (playing Destiny like a second job). I've seen a couple counselors and I've never told them about my fetish. But I spent years just telling myself that its not a bad fetish and I should be embracing it rather than shaming myself over it. I don't need kind words or support, I'm almost 30, I know myself well enough now so I'm over the existential mellow drama period.

I still hold myself as a Christian and I still interact with church goers, but I still live this double life by keeping preggophilia very close to the chest. God's not going to shame me for it, and I know I'm not going to hell over it (hell doesn't exist in my opinion).

But I've always been curious. Have you had similar experiences with any of your religious beliefs or backgrounds?

I'm a Christian as well. If I had to name a denomination, I'd say Presbyterian. I've never really valued going to church or reading the bible though, and it's been a long time since I've done either. As I understand it, before I (and I think even my older sister) was born my father was attempting to become a religious scholar or something of that sort (he got to the point of learning Hebrew and enough Turkish to visit Istanbul at the very least). From what he's told me though, when he transferred to a different university, he lost a sizable portion of his faith, and that's the reason why my sister and I didn't end up raised in an ultra strict and religious household. He also studied to get an IT job, which has left us fairly well off. Despite a few threats to install timers on my computer, as far as I can recall, none ever really stuck for long, and I think I've spent the majority of my life (that I can remember at least) on the computer with effectively unfettered access (I'm 19 for the record). To my knowledge, neither of my parents are aware of my fetish, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are but haven't told me out of kindness, as I haven't done the most fantastic job in hiding it, but then again they never really gave much of a shit what I was doing on the computer.

Even though I don't read the bible or go to church (churches are often corrupt institutions, and I believe the Bible has likely been perverted in many places by men + I think I already get the message), I still firmly believe in God (I agree with Pascal's wager if nothing else, and the Christian God is the one that makes the most sense to me, many other religions feel too self serving to their creators). I value monogamy greatly and intend to remain a virgin until marriage (both for religious and personal reasons). I never truly "covet my neighbor's wife" or self insert either; I'm guilty of many sins, but envy is not one of them. I see this fetish as a gift from God if anything; of all the degenerate fetishes I could have, I got one of the most tame, natural, and biologically understandable ones. I value the fact that while many men find their wives less attractive when they get pregnant, I'll theoretically be able to find mine more attractive than ever, and it also serves as motivation for me to better myself to attract a wife in the first place. I have no shame in my love of pregnancy and pregnant women, but I am ashamed for mainly non religious reasons that I look at real pornography, though I try to do so less and less and I intend to go cold turkey if I ever have a girlfriend. That's pretty much everything my faith and fetish have to do with each other. Just want to make clear though it's God's place to judge what's a sin and whether to forgive it (and I believe God forgives all sins of a truly remorseful sinner), not mine, so be as sinful as you like, I'm certainly not going to cast the first stone.