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CONTRACEPTION

Owing to the fact that the medical profession has been reluctant to give advice on the general theory of contraception women have very largely depended on individual help from each other, and therefore the experience of any women who have successfully practised any method is likely to be taken up by others. Evidence that women do still advise each other to use this method reaches me, and from time to time women tell me pathetically that they relied on this method and it failed them. I have not yet personally met a case in which it has proved reliable.

Illustrative Case.

Galabin[1] quotes a case of a lady married at 20, who after the age of 40, and with her second husband, experienced the orgasm in coitus for the first time and from that time dated her first pregnancy.

Comment.—In my opinion ordinary women should always be disabused of the idea that this is a safe or practical method. A woman should also always be informed that it is detrimental to her health deliberately to avoid the orgasm which is the

  1. ↑ Galabin, A. L. (1891): "A Manual of Midwifery." Pp. xxviii, 832. See p. 47.

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