[LMB] Dark Beta (and immigration)

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Laura Gallagher wrote:

> > > There is an implant available nowadays that functions similarly in
> > > many women - the Mirena.  I had one before deciding to get pregnant
> > > again with the baby I just had.  It turns off the periods in many
> > > women.  I generally jokingly called it my Betan implant.  The biggest
> > > difference I've seen is that they don't really recommend it for women
> > > who haven't had kids yet.
> > >
> > > I assure you it does not remove interest in sex.
>
> Azalais Aranxta wrote:
> > Then it's not turning off the ovaries or the sex hormones.  It's
> > confusing them.  If it's making them think you're already
> > pregnant, then it wouldn't remove interest in sex--many women are
> > intensely interested in sex during early pregnancy.
>
> It's turning off the ovaries in that it is stopping the monthly
> egg-expulsion cycle.  And yes, it's doing it hormonally in the same
> way that the body does when pregnant, but on a very-locally-only
> basis.

Yes.  But when you initially quoted me, you SNIPPED the part of
the bit I was responding to that had caused me to respond with
such vehemence:  his assertion that such a thing could work by
turning OFF the sex hormones, even going so far as to make the
woman's body think it is "six years old" hormonally.

The ovaries do many things hormonally in an adult woman that they
don't do in a child of six.  And children of six are not noted
for their interest in sex.

~malfoy :)

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