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[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
didymos:
--- Quote from: Dina on March 28, 2020, 12:43:14 AM ---In that situation and due to STD it is more than probable than Thomas is effectively using condoms everytime, as it is the best shield for STD transmission.
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While he may have been using condoms, it wasn't for fear of STDs. White Court vamps aren't really vulnerable to them:
--- Quote ---“Microorganisms aren’t a problem to my kind,” Thomas said. “As long as I don’t bleed out, I’ll be fine.”
Butcher, Jim. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, Book 14) (p. 286). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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g33k:
--- Quote from: didymos on March 28, 2020, 12:49:37 AM --- While he may have been using condoms, it wasn't for fear of STDs. White Court vamps aren't really vulnerable to them:
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But they could become asymptomatic reservoirs.
We don't know.
I infer that it doesn't happen, because if the STD's of various kind WERE able to host inside a Whamp body, they'd become (because of their lifestyles) super-infectors (of all STD's... ever). Like the STD versions of the uber-plague Nic tried to initiate. And if THAT were to happen (a) all their prettiest pets would get infected and poxy and icky; (b) they'd have effective bioweapons to use against the White Council (infect their near and dear).
But again, we're getting into some inferred things; I don't think WoJ has delved deeply into supernatural STD's.
Dina:
--- Quote from: didymos on March 28, 2020, 12:49:37 AM ---While he may have been using condoms, it wasn't for fear of STDs. White Court vamps aren't really vulnerable to them:
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But Justine is.
Nevertheless, g33k makes a good point. If they could transmit the diseases, they would infect their human pets. So probably they directly kill the microorganisms.
Bad Alias:
The way Thomas and Justine operate, I'd say there's a fair chance his anti std mojo would be insufficiently aggressive to protect Justine in all cases if they were careless.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on March 28, 2020, 12:43:14 AM ---I mean, if Thomas said they took precaution we don't have any reason to believe he is lying, so it is more probable that it is true. Perhaps Justine lied to him, but in any case, he tried to take care, so at least he thought on that. Anyway, there are many differences with Harry's case. Harry was somehow until the influence of rampire spit and it was a "hot of the moment" thing, while Thomas and Justine are an stable couple that have a lot of sex on a regular basis, so of course they had time to thought about babies and making plans. But that is not all. IIRC due to the need to break the True Love thing and be able to have sex with each other they need to have sex with other partners. In that situation and due to STD it is more than probable than Thomas is effectively using condoms everytime, as it is the best shield for STD transmission.
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I agree, but if he were, she shouldn't have gotten pregnant. I just looked it up, apparently there is a one in fourteen chance of failure with condoms. That whole paragraph is kind of weird though. On what did Thomas base his notion that he was basically sterile? If he believed that, other than fear of STD transmission why use a condom every time? I still think that was the original bases for Lord Raith's power, he could reproduce where the rest couldn't. Thinking back though the series, the White Court seemed to consist of families, and they were all related some how and rather small in number. Remember the gathering where Toot's friends were enslaved and used as living lamps and Harry freed them? If I remember correctly it was a gathering of all the clans and it only amounted to a hundred or so. Lara hires vanilla humans as her muscle and guards, why when given their power and strength White Court Vamps would be much more effective. Unless there aren't enough of them to do that.
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