Anti-Puberty Pill

The way that letter is written and signed, makes me think it could have been penned by Graham Chapman, one of the Pythons. He expounded on various silly subjects in exactly that tone.

Not so silly. IIRC Graham was studying medicine.

Too bad fascism has gone out of style. This fits well with that concept.

The Weird Universe is the one all you fellas are in. Every society that ever existed except yours, which would be every society in the world today except Western society, accepts that sexual opportunities and behaviour carry great risk and should be taken seriously as a result.

It's your Mickey Mouse culture extended to sexuality that makes you treat a serious matter so trivially.

Weird indeed.

This guy never had kids of his own or he would know the whole idea of "innocent children" is a vain hope.

To answer your comment, BMN, Chapman was a qualified physician. I recall a mention, by Palin, I think, that he was called upon to treat crew members on one of the movie sets a few times.

As for the rationale for the anti-sex drive pill, the reproductive drive is so strong in humans at such a young age due to the fact that until the last hundred years or so humans, on average, didn't survive much past their early to mid thirties. If you didn't make a new human in your mid teens chances were that you wouldn't live long enough to see any grandchildren. In modern times old, permissive attitudes towards young ones making babies are viewed with alarm and we try to extend their childhood as long as possible. Good luck with that!

An adult male preoccupied with teen sexuality? What could possibly go wrong?

Until the last hundred years or so, humans simply didn't sexually mature before they were fifteen and their hips were fully formed; there are records about that in various anthropological studies. Since the invention of artificial hormones, though, female puberty comes earlier, because those artificial hormones end up in the water we drink. Water treatment plants don't remove them and every couple of years, there is a newspaper article talking about hormones in water, male fish becoming female, reproductive problems in humans, etc. As a result, girls menstruate at 10 to 12 years old nowadays, thirteen-year-old mothers-to-be get premature babies that cannot pass through their tiny hips and have to be removed by c-section, the recordwoman of youngest mother is a seven-year-old girl who started menstruating at 5, another girl started menstruating at 18 months (she wasn't even potty-trained yet) and her parents had to give her anti-hormones to stop the process. Dr Walker's pill became a reality, at least for these girls. It's still not perfect, though; the girls will remain dwarves all their life because women's growth stops when they start menstruating, and there are many side effects, which makes it unavailable to the general population. However, we can start dreaming of a pill that would allow girls to grow for a longer period and start menstruating at fifteen like in the Roman Empire, and if those pesky hormones keep producing menstruating babies, this pill might come earlier than we think.

Hagava: not Western, Anglo-Saxon. In Europe, we can only shake our heads at the English and American idea that a halfway decent sexual information causes premature fornication and keeping children in the dark with an abstinence-only "education" prevents child pregnancy.

My daughter was wonderfully pretty and obviously had inherited her mother's flirt gene. When she hit ten years old, I started hoping/praying she'd turn out to be a lesbian. I'd have given anything for a supply of those pills!