Anonymous asked: Do you think Izetta can still have sex with Fine? Weird question, I know. I'm just really curious

gasiangaond:

LOL OMG

Well…since I have a medical background, let’s just have fun with this question, shall we? 

From the events in the anime, we know Izetta got thrown off her rifle in her first battle with Sophie. From the looks of it, she totally hit her lower back pretty hard there, which probably broke her spine and caused a spinal cord injury around the lumbosacral region. The severity of damage and the symptoms vary widely, but this being the 1940s and they aren’t exactly in the condition to give her the proper emergency treatment, her outcome isn’t exactly the best.

Injuries of the spinal cord can be complete and incomplete. Complete injury means a total loss of muscle functions and sensations, while incomplete injury means that some of these functions are still preserved. However, the degree of impairment vary so much from person to person that there is an actual Impairment Scale for it: Grade A (Complete Injury), Grade B (Sensory Incomplete, sensory functions are preserved but motor functions are not), Grade C & D (Motor Incomplete, some sensory and motor functions are preserved), and Grade E (Normal). Although sexual dysfunctions are common after a lumbosacral spinal cord injury, it doesn’t close the possibility that her sensory functions can still be preserved.

Another thing is that the sexual sensations are carried by the pudendal nerve, which come from the sacral nerves. In people suffering from incomplete spinal cord injuries, there is a phenomenon known as sacral sparing, where some degree of sensation is preserved in the sacral dermatomes, because the sacral spinal pathways are not as likely as the other spinal pathways to become compressed after injury. A girl with this injury can still get wet if her clitoris gets rubbed, or have an orgasm, for example.

So the short answer is yes. Many paraplegics can have healthy sexual life with their loved ones, and they aren’t exactly inactive partners, they have above average upper body strength to compensate for their legs, and most can be top if they want to. So Fine can definitely be satisfied as well (lol)

All in all it really depends on the degree of Izetta’s spinal cord damage, but the possibility of that is still much higher than zero.

And you know Fine’s still gonna put a ring on it, with or without a sex life