Iron lungs were used to treat polio victims, most of which were children. Polio can affect the CNS and cause musculoskeletal deformities as well as paralysis. Paralysis from the waist down would cause them to be unable to copulate (maggots are the larval stages of flies, children are the human equivalent). There’s an old wives’ tale that cats suck babies’ breath, but the iron lung would be problematic for the cats since it is a ventilator. The body was inside the long cylindrical tube with only the neck and head sticking out (cracked necks from settled limbs). Would you want to go through all of that just to live life paralyzed, deformed, and unable to copulate? Some kinda love or some kinda hate indeed. And it may be “woah”, but in this case, “woe” seems more fitting.
Iron lungs were used to treat polio victims, most of which were children. Polio can affect the CNS and cause musculoskeletal deformities as well as paralysis. Paralysis from the waist down would cause them to be unable to copulate (maggots are the larval stages of flies, children are the human equivalent). There’s an old wives’ tale that cats suck babies’ breath, but the iron lung would be problematic for the cats since it is a ventilator. The body was inside the long cylindrical tube with only the neck and head sticking out (cracked necks from settled limbs). Would you want to go through all of that just to live life paralyzed, deformed, and unable to copulate? Some kinda love or some kinda hate indeed. And it may be “woah”, but in this case, “woe” seems more fitting.