I agree... comparing the two groups of people without further correlation is just silly. I also know that MANY things influence a woman's cycle... not just sexual activity. My best friend hasn't had sex in several years, yet she has an extremely heavy cycle. My guess is that diet plays a large role in her heavy cycles... not sexual activity or lack thereof.

Oh, I get what you're saying, and on a personal level, I totally agree. I don't plan to have kids ever. I think you're right. I want to live a high-quality, LONG, healthy life, and I don't feel an urge to have babies. Medical indoctrination might be the case, except that I tried for years to come up with a reason (on my own)why humans exist, and the only thing I could figure out is that our bodies are designed for sexual intercourse with other humans, and that most likely, we're meant to reproduce. I don't have a hang-up about it though. That was a long time ago that the realization came to me. No one "taught" it to me, though I know it's commonly taught. ANd what followed for me for a while was this notion (a logical idea, not a personal issue) that homosexuality was unnatural because it couldn't produce children. I thought that even though I didn't care one way or the other, or have some personal problem with it, it probably wasn't natural. I've since realized that things aren't always black and white. I realize that not all sex should lead to reproduction, and that homosexuality is what it is. It shouldn't be labeled as natural or unnatural. I myself have had sex with women and men, and see neither one as more natural than the other. Whatever we do is natural. But what I meant about the menstrual cycle, is that if our bodies aren't preparing for reproduction, that should be a warning sign. I don't think people should all reproduce, by any means. I just think that the ABILITY to reproduce should be used as a marker for health. And I've thought about this a lot, and it seems to me that once you can't reproduce (when you hit menopause), you start to slowly deteriorate. What you say about living 100+ years is totally valid to me, and I think it's unfortunate that many women hit menopause and start fading away in their 40s, and sometimes earlier. I want to have my period until I'm 100 myself. I'd like to live to be 200, or older. So I try to just think about what makes the most logical sense, and it's always seemed that when your body stops being able to reproduce, you really start to die much more quickly. So if you can keep that period going, KEEP IT GOING. Not to have babies, but to just live longer. That's my theory anyway. It could be a scientific fact, it could be crazy. But it's what I've come up with from doing my own thinking, not from listening to people who tell me it's okay to take birth control and stop having periods (because that doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I stopped birth control years ago), or that all women stop having periods at a certain point, or that you can't have babies past a certain age, etc. I look at the signs of "normal" aging as problems, and I'm trying to do what I can to avoid them as long as possible, because I'd like to live well past 100.