>Menstrual cramps. I am now going to make the possibly unwarranted
>assumption here that a lot of the Digesters are unmarried, or are
>married and childless. It has been my experience, and the experience
>of many of my friends, that menstrual cramps decrease _greatly_ after
>a woman has had a child. My own wife, Wendy, was once extremely
>subject to cramps, and was near-incapacitated almost every month.
Being in the second group, I can't comment on the reduction in pain after childbirth and being a man I am more than somewhat reluctent to comment on the amount of difficulty menstruation causes......
(At this point a *bright* man would shut his mouth)
However, I seem to have noticed that the difficulty of menstruation and the amount of incapacitation suffered varies *widely* from woman to woman and even from month to month in the same woman.
While my own Lady certainly doesn't *enjoy* her monthly visitations, she doesn't seem to be absolutely incapacitated by them either. She goes to work; usually, unless the period is a particularly bad one, goes to the gym and works out and more or less lives her normal life. If called upon to smight the ungodly at such a time I assume she'd do her usual bang-up job.
Again, every woman's millage *will* vary, but there is no reason *not* to assume that player character women don't fall into the group who problems with menses are small. For that matter, my Lady says that since she started working out regularly, the pain and inconvience of her periods has declined dramatically and that this is common for women who body build. In fact, one of the problems that women sometimes have in body building at the competative level is that they sometimes stop menstruating alltogther If we assume that adventuring women are on the whole a "buff" crowd (swordswomen more so than healers) it's quite possible their monthly burdens will be light.
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