Yea heed verily thou amongst ye who art mostly young and mostly male, so still blissfully ignorant of the joys of the female menopause.

When a woman becomes "of an age" her body undergoes a tumultuous and miraculous transformation. It changes her moods, her sex drive, her ability to begat, and, through a change in hormonal balance, her whole body.

Left to itself, a woman’s body in many cases starts to consume its own bone tissue like a great ogre battles with it's own kind and smotes and smites all who pass in the way of it's awful battle.

In many women over the age of 2 score years and 10 there are signs of the curse of Osteoporosis as well as the Curse of the Menopause.

Heed this affliction ye of the youngest begatting and remember the great and terrible Ogre, Osteo and his evil twin Arthur Itis for whom the cursed affliction art remembered.

Thist affliction art a degeneration of the bones, which become porous, and ultimately it art life threatening. The bones of the afflicted become porous and all Nectar of the Gods art soaked into them and pourest out of them when the poor accursed female creature walks the earth. Her existence art threatened when the male tries to lick the ground beneath her feet and decrees that she doth walk more and more.

And the poor accursed female creature art afflicted with brittleness in her limbs and she doest break her feet when kicking her male's jewels while he art down.

But the most terrible and disgusting and reviled curse of Osteo and Arthur Itis was the curse of madness. Yea, heed my word young begatters, if a woman of the accursed age art nearby, take thy families and thy cattle and they salmon sandwiches and run quickly into yon caverns of darkness in the hillside. For the afflicted woman art one to be feared.

Heed the word, menopause, and widen thine eye to it's horrors.

In the word of Roger the Divine, "Get 'em young, shag 'em and run before their use by date art up"