We’ve come a long way, baby. But millions of women who want contraception still don’t have access.
In Cleopatra's time, women used crocodile dung, honey and sodium carbonate as spermicide.
It was probably pretty good at killing the mood.
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The ancient Egyptians also worried about getting knocked up in the afterlife.
They buried their dead with instructions on how to prevent pregnancy, according to a Planned Parenthood history of birth control.
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In the 17th century, French women used sponges soaked in brandy to fight sperm.
Or at least get them hammered and distracted as they swam towards the egg.
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Casanova, the 18th-century Italian ladies' man, put lemon halves over the cervixes of women he bedded.
He may have been on to something: Australian researchers found lemon juice can obliterate sperm in lab samples.
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