[LMB] OT: When Favourite Authors Screw Up

[Michael Bauminger]

On Sunday, Sep 30, 2007 9:44 PM, Raye Johnsen 
<raye_j at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was rereading one of my favourite Georgette Heyers,
> 'The Grand Sophy', this weekend, and one of the minor
> characters - in fact, the male half of the secondary
> pairing - has just recovered from mumps when he enters
> the action, after an absence of about six weeks.
>
> <snip> one of the consequences is permanent
> impotence

No. One of the possible consequences is male sterility, if 
the mumps attack the testes.

-- Michael