Oh, come now; if I suddenly acquired new sex-related complications on the order of being able to get pregnant, and I was also a new species, I’d probably want to avoid that for at least a while. The character doesn’t know about what birth control may or may not be available, what STDs may or may not be rampant, what pregnancy and childbirth are like for cows, or what the sexual mores of the society she’s in might be! And also has much more on her mind than figuring out how to get laid, let alone with species she’s never considered fornicating with—and the pregnancy one would be from sex with a gender she’s never been attracted to. “Yep, probably better not have any sex” is a perfectly reasonable reaction.
Not that she manages to hold on to it. I swear, there seems to be a rule that Human In Equestria fics end up involving sex with a native one way or another. Maybe it’s a way for the human characters to become symbolically “married” to the nigh-utopian setting?
Oh, come now; if I suddenly acquired new sex-related complications on the order of being able to get pregnant, and I was also a new species, I’d probably want to avoid that for at least a while. The character doesn’t know about what birth control may or may not be available, what STDs may or may not be rampant, what pregnancy and childbirth are like for cows, or what the sexual mores of the society she’s in might be! And also has much more on her mind than figuring out how to get laid, let alone with species she’s never considered fornicating with—and the pregnancy one would be from sex with a gender she’s never been attracted to. “Yep, probably better not have any sex” is a perfectly reasonable reaction.
That is a valid line of reasoning that arrives at the same conclusion, but it’s not the reasoning put forth in the fic.
The sex change alone does suffice, and the line of reasoning used in the fic would make no sense if the character’s sex were not new.
Not that she manages to hold on to it. I swear, there seems to be a rule that Human In Equestria fics end up involving sex with a native one way or another. Maybe it’s a way for the human characters to become symbolically “married” to the nigh-utopian setting?