One moment, class, while I slip into a bra. Now where was I? Ah, yes, gynite. In its unprocessed form, it is a pretty pink gemstone. In the 21st century, advancements in industrialized drilling have brought the mineral to the masses but, in ages past, it was vanishingly rare. By its nature, it is challenging to extract from the earth using medieval methods because it tends to whittle away the manpower required to mine it. Unprotected men would've had only a few scant weeks exposed to a vein of gynite ore before the muscle atrophy associated with hyper-feminisation would have rendered them too weak to lift a pick.

As such, extraction was typically carried out by slaves and condemned criminals throughout most of history, and was so slow as to make gynite an expensive commodity. Deeper into the past, the main source would have been the fortuitous discovery of naturally occurring nodes on the surface.

The oldest suspected usage dates to 19,000 BC, the Upper Paleolithic. Cave paintings in France depict a male hunter encountering what appears to be a chunk of raw gynite and undergoing sexual metamorphosis. A trove of Venus figures found beneath the painting implies that his chance discovery elevated him to the status of a fertility goddess, and further paintings show what looks to be an entire tribe springing from 'her' loins, likely indicating the hyperfertility associated with male feminization. Indeed, scientists theorize that several population explosions throughout the fossil record may have been triggered by gynite.