The Duke of Death and His Black Maid - Vol. 9 Ch. 119 - The Flying Broom

@Tamerlane since he isn't dead, I'd say no, because if that worked like that, then his cells should also be dead, with his entire body
 
@RealMahogany
Now I don't know about you but I think sitting on a broom like that would be a bit if trouble for the family jewels.
That's why in Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality they use saddles for brooms. Harry thought it's weird, too:
... seriously, broomsticks? He was going to fly on, basically, a line segment? Wasn't that pretty much the single most unstable shape you could possibly find, short of attempting to hold on to a point marble? Who'd selected that design for a flying device, out of all the possibilities? Harry had been hoping that it was just a figure of speech, but no, they were standing in front of what looked for all the world like ordinary wooden kitchen broomsticks. Had someone just gotten stuck on the idea of broomsticks and failed to consider anything else? It had to be. There was no way that the optimal designs for cleaning kitchens and flying would happen to coincide if you worked them out from scratch.
 
@Tamerlane My theory is that because his sperm are probably considered part of him, they'd be like a ranged attack and kill stuff on contact like he does. Whole new meaning to spermicide.
 
Just realized one benefit of the curse would be that you are always completely sterile, and can never get any kind of infectious disease. But if that was true then the gut bacteria would also die, meaning digestive issues and potential malnourishment. This does however depend on whether the curse only applies to the exterior of the body, and whether microorganisms are affected.
 

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