Only men would even think about this stuff. They can be so ...
*T-c suffers vocabulary lapse and mumbles off, feeling rather misanthropic.*
“misanthropic”
Your vocabulary doesn’t seem to be having a lapse. :)
The only possible sense I can make of this is that it suggests that the notion of Mary's sinlessness is older than we thought and that the problem presented itself to the proto-scholastic mind: If the pain of childbirth is part of the curse on Adam and Eve, then might not Mary be spared the pain?
But I bow out of the conversation when it gets to the plumbing.