Tthe Prude with a Very Un-Prudish Question

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 24741

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at j...> 
wrote:
> After declaring myself a prude I am aghast at myself for posting the
> following question, but it's BUGGING me.
> 
> Isn't it awfully uncomfortable to be flying on a broom? Think into 
it.
> Harry jerking up and down on this thin slab of wood... isn't it even
> painful, especially during a violent Quidditch match, doing
> "Wonky-Faints" and stuff? I can't imagine riding one, especially on 
wild
> rides. (Perhaps that is why wizards rarely use them for 
transportation).
> 
> Maybe the broom is a wide thing so it's not bothersome. Dunno.
> 
> Forgive me for coming out of the prude closet.

Jen Faulkner has given a complete answer to your factual question,
but I think that your other question needs to be answered as well. 
It is not lewd to consider the physical effects of riding a
broomstick over long periods with high accelerations and 
decelerations.  It is a perfectly reasonable question.  What I find 
unreasonable is to lable that very innocent speculation as somehow 
"dirty", merely because it concerns the nether regions of human 
beings.  Just as "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "dirty" is 
solely in the mind of the prude-- self-confessed or not, in the
closet or not.

Haggridd