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CHAPTER TWO

achieving the result of conception, though the necessity for orgasm to ensure conception varies greatly with different women. It is on record that women can conceive when in a state of narcosis, and many a fertile mother has never felt an orgasm in her life yet, on the other hand, many sensitive women only conceive as a result of a fully completed orgasm.

Thirdly, after ejaculation into the vagina, the living spermatozoa may be demolished easily by a great variety of chemical substances also placed in the vagina. These may act as simple plasmolizers or definite poisons to the spermatozoon.

It should here be emphasized that the true contraceptive (as distinct from the sterilizer) should have only an effect applicable at will to one coital act, and should not have any permanent effect on the individual using it.

We may take it then that the contraceptive which approximately conforms to the theoretical demands should accomplish the following:—

It should either shut away the sperm from the ovum completely and securely (and without at the same time depriving the partner's vagina of contact with the seminal fluid) or it should completely and reliably

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