Vintage Birth Control - Neatorama

Photo: wackystuff

How did people practice birth control back in the days? Here's a tongue-in-cheek postcard c. 1907 that illustrates one such method.

More retro-goodness at Jeffrey Errick's 100 most interesting images at Flickr: Link

I believe some women still use that method.

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This was also the unused fall-back plan for the 'Pubs since their abstinence program was such a huge success.

Ironically, the science here is actually more sound than that behind abstinence.

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I'd have to say I'd probably lose interest if a man was whackin' me with a broom...not that there's anything wrong with that..!

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Irrational belief systems are always so much more fun!

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Remember when people would take the time and arrange stuff like images and words on a blog. Now they just toss a bunch of crap in Flickr and hope people will wade thru it.

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the best contraceptive is a wooden broom. ouch.

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