This was a popular topic of conversation around 2012 when false rumors began to swirl that Brittany of the internationally famous conjoined twins Brittany and Abby Hensel had gotten engaged. As Dreger explains in an article for “ The Atlantic,” while she was writing her book she “came across this 1984 line by a nurse writing in a medical journal: ‘Two people never being able to obtain privacy to bathe, excrete, copulate, or eat defies imagination.'” Conjoined twins are, by nature, inseparable some part of each of their bodies are joined so that two people are fused together as one.įor some reason, when presented with such a rare physical anomaly-only between 1 in 50,000 and 1 in 200,000 births are of conjoined twins-we can’t help but wonder what their love life must be like.Īlice Domurat Dreger is a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and author of “ One of Us,” a book about conjoined twins.
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