Contraception

Contraception

The most obvious and most reliable way of avoiding pregnancy is complete abstinence from coitus. However, throughout history women and men have searched for means of contraception, i.e., for methods or devices that would allow them to engage in coitus without the risk of becoming parents. For thousands of years, such methods as were found remained crude and largely ineffective. Eventually, modern scientists discovered new and better methods (and improved the old ones), until they arrived at the present wide range of reasonable choices. Today, unwanted pregnancies can be prevented with almost complete certainty. Nevertheless, the search for even safer, simpler, and cheaper contraceptives goes on.

[Course 2] [Description] [How to use it] [Introduction] [Conception] [Pregnancy] [Birth] [Infertility] [Contraception] [A Complex Issue] [Methods of Contracep.] [Abortion] [Additional Reading] [Examination]