Another disgusting contraceptive fact (medieval age)
Aborted Fetuses Were Used As A Contraceptive
The contraceptives these "sorceress" sold were incredibly disturbing. They made magical amulets that were supposed to keep a woman from getting pregnant. Inside each one was a pair of weasel’s testicles, a child’s tooth, and a severed finger cut from an aborted fetus.
They sold love potions, too, which were pretty much the same thing. Their love potions contained extracts of the purest essences of—you guessed it—aborted babies. Apparently, their customers would drink these.
It was all pretty messed up. Still, when it comes to the contraceptives, you’ve got to admit: Any woman wearing an amulet full of weasel testicles, baby teeth, and fetus parts probably isn’t going to be getting pregnant anytime soon.
Ancient Japanese courtesans would induce a miscarriage. In this method, the woman would be tied and gagged(because of the pain) and a chopstick like tool(sometimes just a barley stalk) would be dipped in a mixture of herbs and mercury, and then the fetus was pierced in order to induce a miscarriage.
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02 06,2021
