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Evolutionary speaking, that's sufficient because birth control is a recent invention.

I'm not convinced that's true. I believe something resembling condoms, made of cotton or animal intestine, goes as far back as ancient Egypt.

I believe something resembling condoms, made of cotton or animal intestine, goes as far back as ancient Egypt.

Evolutionary speaking, pharaonic Egypt is recent.

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And chemical methods via plants going even further back, by analogy to modern and recent hunter gatherers.

4Jayson_Virissimo12y

Avicenna's medical encyclopedia (available in Europe starting in the High Middle Ages) lists dozens of birth control methods, many of which probably even "worked".

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You know the drill - If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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