if you’re looking for a sign to get the hysterectomy, get it. if you are wondering if you will feel freer, less burdened, more optimistic, lighter without your uterus, you will. if you simply want to never get periods again, get the hysterectomy. if you want to have sex with a different person every day forever and never worry about getting pregnant, get the hysterectomy. if you don’t know whether or not you want to stay on hormones, get the hysterectomy anyway. if you’re afraid you’re too young, and that people will judge you, get it anyway. you don’t have to live in a hostile body. you are the one who gets to decide what it will and will not do.
If you are concerned about the hormonal implications of the hysterectomy, another option is a salpingectomy (getting fallopian tubes removed). I got mine out when roe was overturned and I’ve never been happier. I still get periods and stuff and I still ovulate, but there’s no way for the egg to get into the uterus so I can’t get pregnant. The surgery was laparoscopic, left teeny tiny scars, and i was home from the hospital like 4 hours after I checked in. No pain.
You can find lists of doctors who will do these surgeries on people in their 20s on Reddit, sorted by location. I had to go thru 3 OBGYNs till I found a surgeon who would agree to do it.
I will add that I received a hysterectomy but retained my ovaries. I am not on any HRT at the moment, have no periods, cannot get pregnant, etc. My recovery time was longer, but you also have hysto / no period options if you don’t want to be on hormones.
you can be peeling a boiled egg and think to yourself wow. that was so simple. and then you peel another one and it’s like being in the throes of war. shell everywhere. egg mangled. tears in your eyes. that’s how god keeps you humble
sometimes people writing about fantasy gay sex are right, actually. just found out that sword oil CAN be used as lube. listening and learning.
As someone who write fantasy, including the gay one, I’d very much love to know how you found that out.
Well… I’m the kind of person who will start reading a fic on AO3, say “that can’t be right,” and go down an hour-long Wikipedia hole about historical lubes.
Most natural plant-based oils may be used as lube, though they’re messier and not as good as modern water-based or silicone-based lube. Just remember that oils aren’t good with latex — but your knights probably aren’t using latex condoms, anyway.
Historically, a common sword oil was linseed oil, which is natural, plant-based, and food-safe. So, again, a fine choice.
Other historical options include other plant- or vegetable-based oils, which are probably fine. Some also used animal oils though, which is not fine and can lead to infections. Avoid that shit 🙅
For traditional Japanese swords, choji oil was used, which is made from cloves. High concentrations of clove oil can be toxic, so you HAVE to dilute that shit — 1% concentration or less. Once diluted though, clove oil is considered safe and can be used to treat and soothe anal injuries. It also has a numbing effect that could help with rough anal sex, but your ass would hurt like a bitch after the effect wears off.
There are a few modern sword oils made from machine oil and motor oil. Those should not go in any orifice whatsoever 🙅 Always check the label before using improvised lube.
Anyway, I hope that helps! I hope your knights enjoy their fantasy love-making ❤️
i actually did the opposite thing and when i saw people doing Historical Lube Discourse arguing against the use of various utility oils for this purpose in historical fiction i was like. well why not???
if petroleum jelly and crisco are both notable modern improvised lubes from before the lube industry took off, and crisco was celebrated for being plant-based unlike vaseline and therefore healthier to shove up your ass, why would rapeseed or olive oils be A Huge Problem????
answer is, probably wouldn’t. op has done a solid job laying out most reasons using A Random Oil is strongly advised against in a context where you can buy sex lube; disturbing the vaginal flora and more difficult laundry are up there, and Condom Issues top the list. and yeah modern ‘random oils’ are often petroleum products, which you want to be very careful about which ones you apply to your body and how.
list mostly does not include ‘these don’t work’ or ‘these are somehow hazardous in themselves.’
there is an element of lube industry propaganda circulating, i think, and a lot of people receiving and passing on advice about what is the ideal set of choices for them to make personally without any real interrogation of why, and then pouncing on deviations from this received norm even outside their own context. not that there aren’t also some truly alarming improvised lube ideas out there lmao.
do want to advise that linseed oil is probably low on the list of plant-based utility oils to use for this purpose, even though it’s not likely to harm you directly, for a weird reason!
it’s notable for its volatility, in the sense of it has a lot of components that like to evaporate and that oxidize really dramatically. this makes it valuable for uses like paint and varnish, but also means that if you get careless with it, it can uh. spontaneously combust.
so if you make a mess of fabric with some linseed oil and then get distracted and it oxidizes and heats up and your discarded pants burst into flame, that’s a lube problem you do not want to be having.
as a writer i desperately want an excuse to have someone’s balled-up lube stained pants spontaneously combust under the bed, driving the plot forward, but like.
Fantasy world origin for the phrase “liar, liar, pants on fire”. They hastily hid the pants and lied about having sex and the fire exposed them.
i don’t have anything smart to add other than that i really want people to know: when you see the message “For External Use Only” on toothpaste or shampoo or shaving cream or anything. that’s the manufacturers begging you not to put it up your ass. for this exact reason i love reading this plaintive warning and pondering how that memo was worded in the eczema lotion design department.
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like “yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it” and the only person that’s talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like “hey i liked your cake” and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you’re like dude. what. then they’re like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i’m hungry and i deserve cake. and you’re like dude we’re at a party.
Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.
so for the love of god. please tell people you liked their cake and don’t feel embarrassed about it. because then they will make more cake.
Three of the four elements are represented in types of hockey; Air hockey (air), field hockey (earth), ice hockey (water). Fire hockey needs to be a thing.
fire hockey 100% does not need to be a thing
Yes. Yes it does.
Fire hockey already exists. Welcome to pelota purépecha, or Mayan Fireball hockey.
Hey soooo like. If you let your cats go outdoors first of all why. But second of all you should really stop that since bird flu is extremely fatal in cats and your cats can get it just from contact with wild birds
Y’all, 100% fatality for felines by some estimates. Please, for the love of your furbabies, keep them inside
Illinois! This applies to you! The IDNR the week of Christmas made a formal announcement of mass bird deaths in the state.
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