To Serve and Protect: Historical Contraceptives

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• Pessaries (medical devices inserted into the vagina) made from crocodile dung (Egypt, 1300 BC)

• Swallowing 16 tadpoles fried in quicksilver immediately after intercourse (female) (China, 900 BC)

• Eating mashed pomegranate mixed with rock salt and alum (Arabian peninsula, 200 BC)

• Spitting 3 times into the mouth of a frog, or to eat bees, immediately after intercourse (female) (Dominican Church, 1100)

• Drinking raw onion juice (female) (Italy, 1400)

• Cabbage, taken orally after intercourse (France. 1600)

• Applying tobacco juice to the genitals (female) (Germany, 1650)

• Islamic women are advised to jump backward 7-9 times immediately after sex  (1700)

• Condoms made from animal offal (internal organs and entrails). The original condoms were made from sausage skins by slaughterhouse workers. (Europe, 1750)

• Casanova swears by placing 3 gold balls inside his partner (1750)

• Rubber is vulcanized and will later be used in making condoms. The Japanese, however, continue to use sheaths made from leather or tortoiseshell (1843)

Source: 5 People Who Died During Sex and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists