ANCIENT BIRTH CONTROL - Contraception in Ancient History
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- * DISCLAIMER* Please do not try any of these methods at home! If you have questions regarding your own contraceptive use or family planning, consult with a trained medical professional!
In honour of my cousin becoming pregnant, here are some ways that ancient people used to avoid bringing new life into this world while still doing the no pants dance whenever they liked! (Don't get me wrong, I love children and am very happy for my cousin!!) Let's talk about ancient birth control for Valentine's Day, shall we?!
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Starting off with Ancient Egypt, we’ve got some interesting options. Amazingly, we have two separate papyri that talk about contraceptives and such from this era. The most famous one is the Kahun Gynecological Papyrus dating from 1850 BCE. There’s another medical papyrus called the Ebers Papyrus dating from around 1550 BCE and both this and the Kahun Papyrus mention making a pessary out of a mix of acacia fruit, honey and sometimes ground up dates. We have a lot of written evidence for contraceptives from ancient Rome all thanks to a guy named Soranus. Born just before the second century CE, he could be considered antiquity’s foremost scholar on gynecology! Five of his suppository contraceptive recipes include pomegranate peel or rind… WHICH has been proven by modern science to affect fertility.
What seems to be a quite popular method is the use of Silphium. Silphium was a fennel-type plant that was native to north Africa that only grew on a small strip of land near Cyrene in modern day Libya. Silphium was used mostly for cooking and eating and such, and the documentation for contraception isn’t as well documented in comparison, but the effectiveness was probably exaggerated. But it may indeed have been used as an oral contraceptive in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the ancient Near East and the hype for this plant was so sought after that it was worth more than its weight in silver by the first century AD and by late antiquity it was fully extinct.
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Contraception: A Casebook from Menarche to Menopause
edited by Paula Briggs, Gabor Kovacs, John Guillebaud
Suitters B. Contraception in Ancient and Modern Society. Royal Society of Health Journal. 1968;88(1):9-11. doi:10.1177/146642406808800105
Hopkins, Keith. "Contraception in the Roman Empire." Comparative Studies in Society and History 8, no. 1 (1965): 124-51. Accessed February 8, 2021. www.jstor.org/stable/177539.
The story of the condom by Fahd Khan, et al. Indian journal of Urology
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Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance by John M. Riddle
Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval Times by John M. Riddle and J. Worth Estes, American Scientist , May-June 1992, Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 226-233
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Love the video but my brain couldn't stop screaming "Yeast infections!" with all the stuff they inserted!
So many infections! So much probable irritation too!! 😭
You'd think the smell of the crocodile dung would be a passion-killer, or maybe egyptians of the time smelled things like that often enough it wouldn't bother them?
Also, desperately trying here not to make the obvious joke about Soranus' name in a video about birth control. (Sorry.)
The dung still confuses me, but hey... whatever helped right?!
Also haha I'm loving that people in the comments are continuing to find jokes that I missed!
I think the use of crocodile dung is misunderstood. I think it may have worked something like this:
Her: "Hey come over later. I'll be smearing crocodile dung on my 'lady-parts'!"
Him: "Ermmm, no thanks. I think I'll be washing my fake beard"
😂
0:11 This is the most science academian way of describing pregnancy ever
😂 had to come up with a lot of different ways to say the same thing in this vid
This is a really interesting subject, and one that a lot of people would be afraid to cover out of prudishness. People (especially women) have been navigating this topic for millennia, but not enough has been written down. Well done for making this video, despite the high risk of demonetisation. Also, really impressed by the extensive repertoire of PG-13-rated euphemisms- most people's vocabularies would have come up empty way before 18 minutes.
Love the video! The effectiveness of some of the plant solutions on mice makes me wonder if ancient peoples tested for efficacy on rabbits. It would make sense for it to be the go-to animal for contraceptive experimentation!
"Fumigate her adult playtime parts" - this may be the best I've ever heard! Hehehe...
cannot believe there are no knocks at the door. you are great.
For real! I also find this hard to believe. Who doesn't want a super-intelligent cutie who loves to travel and uncover the hidden secrets of the World?!? And... being famous on the You-Tubes has to help your chances greatly, right? I'm pretty sure that's one thing fame, in any form, is reliable for.
Seriously, your vids are great. Please keep producing this awesome content. Also, I agree that the Harappan civilization was the best of the ancient world. But, you didn't mention in the video that they came up with the design of dice we all know and use still today!
Came for the fascinating discussion of ancient contraception. Stayed for those puns.
Honeypot lol.
Yesss! 🙌🏼 the puns made it so fun to film this
You forgot the most important Greco-Roman contraceptive measure: fuckin' dudes!
Great video and congrats to your cousin!
Also, CZcams put an ED commercial at the beginning which was HYSTERICAL! 😆
Bae come over...
I can’t
My parents aren’t home
I said I can’t
LISTEN HERE, I SCOOPED AND BURNED CROCODILE 💩 FOR TWO HOURS, YOU BETTER COME AND GIVE ME THE SWEET LOVE I DESERVE!
😂😂😂😂
OMG
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Oh 😳....oh sweet & sour soup NO! Lmao shit should only come through one hole....and never be going in them lol
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Love your channel! 💜 Glad to see someone share the really intresting history with the world 💜
Glad you enjoy it!
Welcome to how raven describes intercourse:
Bumpin' uglies
Getting it on like donkey kong
No pants stance
Doin the dirty
Roll in the Hay
Get it on
Doin the horizontal hoola
Doin the deed
Put it up there
Adult Playtime Parts
Gettin' up in there
😂 I’m so glad someone took the time to memorialise this
The sheep intestine condom was first developed in Wales during the 15th century. In the 16th century, the English improved upon the design by removing it from the sheep.
Friend 1: hey dude, I've got this girl coming over now...do you have any...
Friend 2: don't worry bro, I got you! **GIVES HIM A SEA SPONGE**
Always keep one handy in your bedside drawer 😂
I am vastly amused at the number of euphemisms you were able to dig up, so to speak. Got me laughing pretty hard.
Sneezing?!
Haha yeah that one was the best 🤣
Awesome video!! Thanks, Raven!
Glad you liked it! 😊
Juniper would at least smell more inspiring than crocodile poop...... Thanks for this video, I had a blast! 🤣
Very true!! Glad you liked the vid 😊
What about non-procreative sex as a form of birth control? Moche pottery seems to indicate it was popular in at least one part of the world (Ancient Peru). I mean it would be much easier (and safer) than all of the mentioned kitchen recipies.
Super interesting video! Also considering the date, lo Lupercalia!
Ahhhh true! That’ll be next year’s video 😉
Great vid! 👍❤️thank you
That was worth watching if only for your imaginative use of euphemisms.
Of course we want a second part.
I though the population fluctuations in ancient times would be mostly due to Malthusian pressure. When more food can be grown then population would increase. Population would decline when less food can be grown such as due to drought or cooling climate. When there wasn’t enough food around... you get Hansel and Gretel situations.
Not so much Hansel and Gretel but infanticide was fairly common. Newborns would be abandoned would be abandoned somewhere where no one could hear them. Think all those Greek myths of unwanted princes being exposed to the elements. I can't speak to everywhere but i know the local First Nation, the Gadigal had successful enough reproductive control that they rarely faced food shortages. I strongly suspect that "Malthusian pressure" was rarely ever a thing anywhere. Thomas Malthus was writing to get rid of public welfare and to keep grain tariffs that favoured the rich.
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Its so cool.
Congratulations
Such an interesting topic I had never thought about before! Have lots to thank my cousin for haha
That earring... i must have it!
Ah yeah, great vid, as usual!
haha thanks! They were a fun challenge to come up with. And the earrings were from a little shop off the side of a road in Delhi, India... I wish I could link them for you
Just discussing "crocodile dung" would appear to be effective birth control in and of itself...in a "cool your jets" kind of way. Once on a road trip with some females I thought I might have gotten pregnant...but they said washing underwear together doesn't cause that. Sooo...I'm guessing your cousin MUST have gotten the cell number of The Stork? Cute sneeze by the way. Psst! Raven? Did you know you are blushing. Noticeably? Also cute. (Don't worry. I won't tell anybody.)
Haha discussing crocodile dung would definitely steer the moment in another direction! If anything, it would just distract and completely kill the mood 😂
Washing undies together doesn’t work!? Oh phew!! I’ve asked my cousin for the Stork’s number for further details
Also, yelling at one’s phone and coming up with so many euphemisms would make anyone blush haha
@@DigItWithRaven And not to worry! I won't try any of these at home. My big, really obvious "tell" regarding my seduction efforts...is that I'll have gotten married earlier in the day. ("Oopsies" are not so terrifyingly nail-biting in that circumstance.)
@@DigItWithRaven Que qu'est ce que tu fais...yelling? (remember your Canadian high school French? Maybe I don't either.) What are you doing yelling at your phone?
Haha I film using my phone! I guess it's not so much yelling as expressive emoting
This was informative and hilarious, like my 10th grade teacher from the States that was so chill and awesome but whose name has been lost to the sand of time. I also laughed like a middle schooler, sorry. But so interesting. Subscribed
This was rad!
I watched the dig , now i want to dig
More content, the road to 10k
So close!!!
Just stumbled across this channel and I must say, not ONE reference to "The Meaning of Life" condom scene?....nor the Todays Sponge Seinfeld episode?!?! Oy vay! Low hanging fruit ripe for the picking! After watching the Plague of Justinian and catching the Holy Grail monk skit, i guess i had set the bar sooooo high. Now I must go unblush after hearing about all those naughty bits. Good channel. Cheers!
I found it funny that "mythology, folklore, and the bible" was said as if the latter wasn't already included in the former.
It was the salt that got me 😳 can u even .... and the arsenic and that too .... no man would get within a mile of me
not till seeing those earrings have I ever wanted to pierce my ears...
Awee thanks! They are definitely a favourite pair of mine
Don't do this at home. First one ist abstinens. This is not nice for us singles for Valentine's day.
Definitely don't try any of these at home!!
Lots of ways to do the salsa in here!
6:14crocodile dung?🐊
"Humans are sexual beings by nature. We love getting it on like Donkey Kong"
Me, an asexual: lol
Baby!!! Wooooo!!!
Take a drink whenever a euphemism for sex or genitals is used =p This video shows how some people in the past just couldn't help entering the bone zone (that sounds like it's archaeology related but y'all know what I mean). But hey, I guess that's how we are here now, so we can thank them for that =p
Ahhh I can't believe I didn't think to say the bone zone!!! Such a good one 😂
@@DigItWithRaven It'll be perfect for a sequel video next year =p
Gotta start coming up with a list to make sure I don't forget any!
0:27 I bet you got some weird comments in response to that... 2:07 and that.
feels like a Sexsplanations cross over episode I 💖 it!
How about Queen Anne lace ??
People are totally still trying that one.
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You must have spent a good chunk of research time for this video just trying to find so many different euphemisms for 'getting it on', right? :)
Haha I’d say about half of my research time was on this very matter 😉
TIL about fumigation
TIL that the condom was invented by a guy literally named "Dr. Condom."
I want your reaction to the condom discussion on Monty Python's; The Meaning of Life.
What does Raven smoke with those pipes she's has in the glass?
I’m not sure about the English word for them, but i think they are what we in danish call ‘kridtpiber’ (the direct translation would be something like ‘chalk pipes’) which were very common a couple of hundred years ago (at least then, I’m not too sure about the exact period of use).
In denmark they are one of the most common founds, especially when digging in the city or other heavily populated areas, as they where shared, by cracking off the tip (where the mouth goes) which meant they had a very shot lifetime (thus making them something that was brought fairly often, making the amount thrown out very high and therefore something that is relatively easy to find now.)
I know you’re probably just joking but thought I would explain in case anyone else was wondering what they are.☺️
Clay pipes! Did you go mudlarking?
I did not, but I’m hoping to get a license for it!
No need for contraceptives if you dont have a partner this year. *points finger at head*
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Contraception probably decreased infant mortality too. I've been doing my genealogy and seeing huge families in the 1800s with high infant and child mortality rates. In the early 1900s, the family sizes dropped dramatically, and so did infant and child mortality. This is just within my own family tree, but it seems logical that having fewer children means having healthier children.
Knocking on your door...
Well Trojans are ancient so.....
I don't think you are correct about pomegranates being a sinful fruit in the bible. Let me know if I am wrong, let me know.
Goat hide condem
Liking and commenting bc the algorithm hates women