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In response to a recent bibble by evolnemesis, I decided to see just what the effects were of that misplaced testosterone emitter.

As it turns out, it does indeed produce H4C stress, meaning male norns (and only norns; grendels and ettins lack the receptor by default) have a higher level of it by default. However, provided they're well fed, the amount shown in this picture is as high as it ever gets, and as you can tell by the graph on the far right it's just not high enough to have a negative impact overall (H4C stress on its own is harmless; it's just a flag for high H4C to start producing proper stress).

A bad, unfinished gene that's better off getting axed? Yes. Male norns are needlessly more prone to hunger-related stress than other creatures. But on the whole it doesn't have that great of an effect on their overall quality of life.