Birth control is not an invention of modern times, nor is it a
purely personal matter. By the same token, mighty institutions such
as church and state have exerted their influence as effectively as
that of doctors, population theorists, and the early pioneers of
the feminist movement; all of these claim a special expertise in
matters of ethics and morality, and so shape the discourse on birth
control. The focal point of this engaging new book by renowned
historian, Robert J tte, is the Europe of modern times. It also
takes in its scope various cultural groups elsewhere in America,
China, India and the near East, and world religions such as
Christianity, Judaism and Islam, offering an engaging comparative
study of the phenomenon of contraception. Demographic and political
aspects of population studies are explored from the early middle
ages to the present, as well as the population theories of Malthus.
J tte explains how our antecedents dealt with such things and how
today's technologies, the condom and coil for example, and our
moral perceptions have evolved. In addition to the contraceptives
we know and use today, J tte considers other contraceptive
practices as diverse as the persecution of witches, the castration
of young boys to preserve their voices, the habits of prostitutes
and their varied clients and the use of herbs and very peculiar
talismans. This comprehensive survey of one of the oldest and most
urgent problems of mankind builds up a rich picture of how, over
the centuries, all manner of men and women, together and
separately, have battled with the needs both for sexual
gratification and for limitation of offspring, and also looks
beyond to how contraception might evolve in the future. Birth
control is not an invention of modern times, nor is it a purely
personal matter. By the same token, mighty institutions such as
church and state have exerted their influence as effectively as
that of doctors, population theorists,
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