[ SECRET POST #5169 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5169 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get those kinds of stories are meant to be romantic, but it wouldn't matter how much I loved someone, I'm not living in a house without indoor plumbing. Never mind being stuck in a time period where birth control doesn't exist, giving birth was incredibly dangerous and all the modern period-tools(pads, painkillers, heating devices) also didn't exist. If I loved him that much I'd drag him forwards so we can both have a better chance of living longer.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. I’ve only read one book where the girl brings the guy to the present with her and wondered why that didn’t happen more often.

[(Anonymous)]

She's from the 1940s, so they've only *just* got antibiotics and she might not have used them yet as a frontline army nurse. Birth control is diaphragms and condoms only, painkillers are aspirin and opioids (the latter is also available in the earlier time period though not so much where she's living) and I doubt her periods would be much different apart - she couldn't have a hot water bottle but she could have a hot brick.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Also, I'm pretty sure by the time she goes back (back to Jamie's time, I mean, not back to her own time) she's menopausal. They very much don't make the character look that old, but yeah, she is in fact late forties.

I mean, I still wouldn't be in a hurry to swap the relative comfort and safety of the mid-twentieth century for the fuck-all of the 1700's.

Just saying, specifically re: the birth control/childbirth situation, it probably wasn't a concern for her by the time she went back.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, James Herriot was administering them as a vet before the war. His description of what it was like is marvellous.

[tree_and_leaf]

Plus, they have indoor plumbing and warmer houses in the forties, and while commercially produced opioids and aspirin may not seem like brilliant painkiller choices from a 21st Century perspective, they beat the hell out of making your own willow bark tea or trying to obtain poppy syrup in the middle of the Highlands.

[(Anonymous)]

Sulphomamides are not antibiotics.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank-you - I learned something today!