Encyclopedia of Birth Control

Unlike most mammals, humans are able to be sexually active for a large proportion of their adult lives. Sexual activities, however, tend to result in the birth of children. There is, therefore, a general human impulse to procreate the human race, “but not yet”. This fact has exercised the minds of human moralists and physicians from earliest days. (The Kahun papyrus has been dated to approximately 1850bc. This recommends inserting a paste made from a mixture of crocodile faeces and wheat dough into the vagina before intercourse. Could I suggest that any reader of Reference Reviews who uses this particular...