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An ethnographic, inductive approach was used to analyze the data.<\/jats:italic> <\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>RESULTS:\u2002<\/jats:bold>  <jats:italic>Half of respondents had experienced at least one unintended pregnancy. Respondents described three categories of pleasure related to pregnancy ambivalence: active eroticization of risk, in which pregnancy fantasies heightened the charge of the sexual encounter; passive romanticization of pregnancy, in which people neither actively sought nor prevented conception; and an escapist pleasure in imagining that a pregnancy would sweep one away from hardship. All three categories were associated with misuse or nonuse of coitus\u2010dependent methods.<\/jats:italic> <\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>CONCLUSIONS:\u2002<\/jats:bold>  <jats:italic>For some individuals, the perceived emotional and sexual benefits of conception may outweigh the goal of averting conception, even when a child is not wholly intended. Future behavioral studies should collect more nuanced data on pregnancy\u2010related pleasures. 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