I have to support her initiative if it results in moar adorbs bebeh sloths squeeeee!!!

Aw that's sad - when I was reading your story I pictured it as a happy one (awesome powers and all that).

Yeah, my reaction was also more along the "Baldwin? Good luck." line than "what a hag!" one, but hey.

Yup.

See, that sort of thing bothers me WAY more than the idea that some people are into animals on their own time, and I strongly suspect that it is also way more common. Women - some trafficked, some there because of difficult circumstances - who have to do [whatever it is that they do in zoophilie shows] because other…

Oh, please.

To me too, but if you go through the comments here and in some past articles about her, you'll notice a bunch about it ("I'm having a really hard time buying 28", "Hilaria at 28 makes me look like a 12 year old. And I'm 25", etc.).

If she gets anything reflecting all the jugy "Gawd she looks so old! She can't possibly be in her twenties" comments in real life, I can guess at at least one of the things that got her self-esteem there.

Yes - amazing contrast.

Yes. I hate the fact that our attitudes (puberty = sexuality! Also, for girls who do develop sexually earlier, kid who happens to masturbate = harlot!). I feel like a lot of the grasping for reasons to explain early puberty as a pathology (oh! It's the milk! it's the meat! it's the sloth!) is also stigmatizing - it's…

The cow's naturally produced hormones could still have an impact on human endocrine systems (especially since cows are now milked during their pregnancy as well as post-partum).

It has been a fairly steady decline over the last century. However, age at puberty at that point seems to have been abnormally high in relation to historic precedents (e.g. [www.sciencemag.org]), possibly as a side effect of the high incidence of illness/malnutrition in industrializing societies.

It seems that more than a third of the post at this point over some variation on "It's so simple, it's exogenous hormones (either from milk and meat or from artificial sources like plastics)" as an explanation.

Or maybe it's a healthy continuation of long-lasting trends?

Exactly!

While there are a ton of good reasons to be weary of artificial hormones in milk (and possibly of naturally-occuring ones, for that matter), they aren't enough to explain this change.

Because none of those things can actually account for the patterns we see, and reality is more complex. It's been studied; the correlation isn't clear at all.

The question is: were you happy or distraught to be a werewolf?

While the clinical experience you bring up is surely interesting and relevant in other contexts (and while I'm sure that the help you have given your patients is valuable to them/society), it doesn't really have anything to do with the question of triggers and sets up a false and unfair comparison (if a Holocaust…

Ha - your comment's content was so close to the OP's that it seemed horrifyingly plausible for a minute or two.