Ep 42: The History of Autonomous Fertility Control
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Why have we lost our collective knowledge of contraception? This episode walks you through the most common methods of fertility control throughout the ages, and discusses how knowledge chains were broken in order to exert control over reproductive function at the societal level. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dr97NdKUd5Lzp0aAaZt9qWSWBUZAfSEI/view?usp=sharing
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