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.
Or, as a nice colleague used to say about another one of my colleagues (an older, unmarried woman, that seems to be in a perpetually bad mood):
»She will be returned unopened.«
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02 06,2021
