This isn't just celebrity gossip, it's a theological problem for Mormons. This man has effectively married two women, and had a child by one of them.

The marriage has obviously been consummated as they have a child now.

There are multiple Mormon issues here.

If they had retained plural marriage of course, instead of bowing to external pressure then this wouldn't be an issue.

Would both be baptised at the same time, or separately? What about temple recommends and sealings?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/conjoined-twins-abby-brittany-hensel-210857451.html

Conjoined Twins Abby and Brittany Hensel Seen Out with Newborn Baby Over a Year After News of Abby's Marriage Became Public

The photos come four years after Abby Hensel married her husband Josh Bowling in 2021

My first thought is that you brought up Mormonism, which is a freak show, in a post about conjoined twins.

Are they LDS, or is this theoretical?

Mormonism really doesn't know how to deal with conjoined twins or intersex children. Those situations are rare enough that the church just kind of clears its throat and changes the subject.

Unfortunately, children that have a sexual orientation other than simple heterosexual male or female are common enough, that it is a group too big to ignore.

Brother Of Jerry Wrote:
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> Mormonism really doesn't know how to deal with
> conjoined twins or intersex children. Those
> situations are rare enough that the church just
> kind of clears its throat and changes the
> subject.
>
> Unfortunately, children that have a sexual
> orientation other than simple heterosexual male or
> female are common enough, that it is a group too
> big to ignore.

A friend of ours grew up with an intersex friend in Utah. However growing up, no one knew this person was intersex. They were raised as male, and participated in all of the typical male activities, scouts, priesthood, little league baseball, etc. After high school, this person came out as identifying as female. Apparently she presented all of the medical information of her intersex condition to the first presidency and she was allowed to officially change her gender on the church records. She is now temple married, had been in the Relief Society presidency, and is a mother to a couple of adopted children.

The church can deal with it, but prefers to do it as quietly as possible because publicly acknowledging the issues would be damaging to their narrative.

I wonder if this is one of those things that the church will more become definite about as time passes.

The analogue, if there is one, might be abortion, a procedure regarding which the church did not espouse an official policy until the 1930s. Before then, the attitude seems to have been "don't ask, don't tell." But once national attention began to on abortion, the church evolved a much more definite and obdurate position.

It thus seems possible that in today's hyper-politicized environment, with fiery debates over all sorts of gender and sexual issues, intersexuality might get more scrutiny from SLC than in the past. In those circumstances I don't see any reason to believe the church would opt for a compassionate position on the matter.

Each one of the heads controls a separate leg; they must coordinate in order to walk.

What makes you think that the vagina belongs to both of them?

Well, no one said anything about their sharing a vagina. So your question seems bizarrely off point.

Never fear, though, a quick Google search about the aforementioned Abby and Brittany reveals the answer:

"If twins share one set of genitals, they’re both going to feel any touching down there. Whether or not both are 'having sex' with the third person in the equation depends on how you think about 'having sex.'"

So yes, they share a vagina as well as an endocrine system and various other systems that are not amenable to binary thinking.

https://vt.co/lifestyle/relationships/how-conjoined-twins-abby-and-brittany-make-intimacy-work

I always assumed that one would wear a blindfold while the other had sex. No peeking!

elderolddog Wrote:
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> I always assumed that one would wear a blindfold
> while the other had sex. No peeking!

they share lower parts