Ideas Here and There

[flwyd]

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Idea for a story. Estrogen and Testosterone pills become available for purchase without prescription (the black market, perhaps). People start abusing them. Explore. For more excitement, how's it being produced? Are people extracting their testrostergen? Is it from animals? Is it made in a lab? If the latter, do people cut it with something cheaper?

I had a dream a few mornings ago that my family had to move to Belgium for political reasons. I was regretting that the US and UK were chummy, because I'd prefer to flee to a country where I spoke the language. Belgium seemed to be a mix of cute and industrial. My friend Andy (who'll have a French Ph.D. RSN) appeared and helped translate a few things.

What's the symbology, Dr. Freud? (Is your benzadrine alive...) Am I reduced to using the most foul word in the universe? Do I need more phlegm in my speech?

Comments

[dilemma.livejournal.com]

Testosterone pills don't exist. It's broken down by stomach acid. You'd need injections, or some synthetic form of the hormone. And synthetics wouldn't produce the transgender effects I think you're hinting at the story having.

Unless you make it sci-fi too and include some wacky testosterone pill. Fiction, in a ficticious story? Heavens forbid!