They may just not desperately need a third, just as most of us with a second to whom we are very attached don’t need a third - even when the sex gets old. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate. Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. It turns out that doctors didn’t even know that Brittany and Abby’s parents were expecting twins as their heads perfectly lined up during the. The twins were born in Carver County, Minnesota, but that wasn’t the amazing thing about their birth. Nerves, muscles, hormones, and psychology all probably factor in to who feels what … Whether or not both are ‘having sex’ with the third person in the equation depends on how you think about ‘having sex’ … From my studies, I would postulate that conjoined twins probably end up having less sex than average people, and that is not only because sex partners are harder to find when you’re conjoined. Brittany and Abby Hensel were the talk of the town as soon as they were born on March 7, 1990. “Based on what we know about the significant variability of one conjoined twin to feel a body part (e.g., an arm) that putatively ‘belongs’ to the other twin, it’s hard to guess how any conjoinment will turn out in practice. In 2012, conjoined twin expert Alice Dregar broke it down for The Atlantic, but basically came to the conclusion that we don’t know that much about the intimate lives of conjoined twins and one’s view on the topic really depends on that person’s view of sex in general. The answer, in short, is that we don’t know a lot about their sex lives. It’s the question that everyone wants the answer to, but no one wants to ask. The twins stayed at the hospital for a month following surgery, and went home in early September.
Today, they function so in-sync with one another that doing those activities as a team comes naturally to the two, who share an elementary school classroom. (Joe Hallisy / Michigan Medicine) The successful separation surgery, which took 11 hours, is the first of its kind at Mott and, it's believed, in Michigan history, according to University of Michigan Medicine. Abby controls the devices on the right side of the steering wheel and Brittany the left, while they cooperate in working together to steer the vehicle.Īs children, they had to learn to coordinate their actions that required both sides of their body - such as clapping, walking, and swimming - but can do many activities such as eating and writing as individuals. On their short-lived series, Abby & Brittany, we watched as the girls conquered their road tests (yes, they each had to pass separately) and learned to drive. How are they able to perform everyday tasks that require both sides of their body?! Each twin can control her side of their shared body. They have double the organs for the top half of their body - meaning two hearts, four lungs, two stomachs - but share many of their bottom half, including their set of reproductive organs. Abby and Brittany’s most recent school pic! What makes Abby and Brittany unique?Ĭonjoined twins are already extremely rare - occurring just once in every 189,000 births by some estimation - but Abby and Brittany are dicephalic parapagus twins (meaning they have two heads, but one torso), which make up only 11 percent of those conjoined twins.
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