An ob/gyn I knew said, "I can make a woman of ninety bleed, bleeding is not a conclusive sign that anything is happening or that the woman can ovulate or conceive."

As for ovulating having no effect at all on women or men or people in general and we are all just sleek, rational machines who are never affected by our bodies, well fine.

That's silly, but fine.

It's especially silly coming from people who think you shouldn't eat meat because of the personhood of animals. But they don't think they themselves have an animal physiology. No. They are sleek robots who survey life coolly and are unmoved by having a cold, being tired, a glass of wine, or being too hot or cold. No. They are above all that icky, physical stuff.

Every case is different, and it's a free country. There was no "thou shalt do this" in what I said. I just pointed out how people's bodies work in general, and every case is certainly individual.

A little googling will turn up some things about how ovulating affects people. It is not a huge effect. But it is there, it is part of life.

A woman who isn't getting what she wants can certainly adjust her contraceptive method. There is nothing particularly holy or saintly about the Pill or the other hormones. The Pill is safe and effective. So? Lots of other things are too. The Pill is not sacred. You would have thought I insulted someone's religion.

My ideas are completely modern. But people aren't machines and a life completely free of ovulation might not be the same as one with ovulation in it. Ovulation is normal.

Normal, normal, normal.

Never doing it for decades might not be without some consequences, for some people, somewhere.

There, is that enough careful language for you? Of course it's all up to the woman. Of course a doctor should be consulted.

You have to spell everything out.

Bleeding is just the housecleaning after the event. The event was ovulating.

Men will love women who never ovulate. But in some cases, one might be affected. Perhaps in how much he wanted to do about it. You might as well be aware. This is just one psycho-social mechanism among many others.

Is that general enough for you? This is not a brief before the Supreme Court. Is my language nuanced enough for you?