> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Mikko Rintasaari wrote:
>
> > > Speaking of which I see that Babeester Gor devotees cannot bear
> > > children (HW:RiG p49). I am uncertain whether this means they
> > > can not have any children, or whether they flip out and go beserk
> > > with their axe whenever they are confronted by one. I think in
> > > the light of the two humakti philosophies concerning love (recently
> > > revealed on this forum), that the Babeester are similarly divided
> > > over this matter.
> > >
> > > --Peter Metcalfe
> >
> > There was a cool (if a bit gruesome) idea sometime back that the BG are
> > constantly mensturating. It will have to be very lite, or othervice they
> > would die of bloodloss (or rather low hemoglobin, in Terran terms).
>
> On the contrary, it would have to be very heavy to risk death, otherwise
> women in the real world would be seriously ill one week in four.
Ah, but I was thinking if it was in full effect all the time. It would get a bit costly on the blood...
> More on topic, I thought the reason Babs worshippers couldn't have
> children was they weren't (in the latest thinking) allowed to let anyone
> touch them. At all.
That's true. But I don't think we knew that yet, at the time.
-Adept
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