The Origins of Contraception

In 1843 it's confirmed that conception occurs in human reproduction when the sperm enters the egg. It was assumed that men created life and women just provided a little Aristotle had like this idea of a homunculus Which is like he thought there was like a very tiny person Inside of the head of the sperm which then went into the into the uterus and just grew there from a tiny like speck Yeah, that's and so the fact that was still going that that kind of concept so similar to that was going Thousands of years later is embarrassing Literally like 200 years ago. That was the thought process that we had. I would never in a million years have Like the idea that contraception is so old

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