Menstruation Is Fast Becoming Optional

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_he_me/no_more_periods_2 ^

[cripplecreek]

Not to mention home run records.

[nmh]

Good one!

;)

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Women will be running around with beards in the 2060S,


NOW will really catch on.

as the feminist movement will still be holding strong. LOL

[martin_fierro]

Hey, I swear.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

What is he going to push that thing out of !

[nmh]

Maybe ... .


How about female eunuchs by SURPRISE? Or early menopause?

I think now they see it as being sexually promiscuous without the hassles of interruption.

[annie laurie]

A humorous short story with a somewhat different twist on this subject: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis.

[Wormwood]

A humorous short story with a somewhat different twist on this subject: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis.

LOL! I just read that story this past Friday (I was browsing a collection of Hugo-Award winning short stories).

Great little tale—prescient in its own way

[ovrtaxt]

dang! Now I'm all excited. I'll never get to sleep tonight!

[little jeremiah]

You can't fool Mother Nature. This is not good.

[annie laurie]

Yep, I read it about year ago, but it sprang immediately to mind as soon as I saw this thread.

Going off-topic for a moment, almost everything I've ever read by her is fantastic. "At the Rialto," "Bellwether," "To Say Nothing of the Dog," and "Doomsday Book" are all incredible.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled thread (apologies for the minor derailment ;-))

[GSlob]

Who knows? Judging from what is already known, the side effects, if any, are likely to affect a minority of users - otherwise there would have already been an outcry. Or the side effects could be marginal, like gradual [vs. sudden] loss of fertility.

[cripplecreek]

dang! Now I'm all excited. I'll never get to sleep tonight!

Makes my nipples springier than door stoppers just thinking about it.

[caryatid]

It wouldn't surprise me if permanent infertility was a result ...

I have long believed that the huge increase in infertility, lack of ovulation, etc. in young women is directly attributable to their having fooled their bodies with birth control hormones from a very young age.

They should be careful what they wish for ... and then not whine when they ultimately can't snap their fingers and get pregnant at will.

[nmh]

I agree. From countless females, from birth control ALONE, they had difficulty conceiving. Now remove that aspect ... after YEARS of taking this and I have little doubt infertility will be the minor of consequences. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more problems with thyroids ... that too is hormone regulated - hypothalamus - and the list of very real consequences continues. You'd have to be a real fool to use this as a convenience of sorts.

[metmom]

The period is "way over-romanticized," says Linda Gordon, a New York University professor specializing in women's history and the history of sexuality.

"It doesn't take long for women to go from being excited about having a period to feeling it's a pain in the neck," said Gordon,

Well, there's a couple understatements if ever I heard one.

[ovrtaxt]

Clicky

[weegee]

I did NOT want to go there (but you bring up a scary thought).

[cripplecreek]

BOINNNNNNNNGGGGGGG

[metmom]

I've heard that using the pill as a teen does the same thing to a woman's body as a miscarriage or abortion for the first pregnancy. It can allegedly lead to an increased risk of breast cancer as the breast cells start to differentiate as they do early on in a normal pregnancy but because there is no pregnancy carried to term, those changes are never completed and so all those differentiated cells remain in that state and are more susceptible to mutations that could lead to breast cancer in the future. It does seem a reasonable conclusion.