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Earlier this week, the humor blog Cracked put up a scholarly and hilarious top ten list of History's Most Terrifying Contraceptives. These pre-modern, no-baby devices ran the gamut from diaphragms made out of opium...to diaphragms made out of crocodile dung. There were also diaphragms made out of silver, gold, and lemons, and condoms made out of animal intestines — and then there were the post-sex pregnancy remedies of ingesting blacksmith water, and the pre-sex preventative measure of eating weasel testicles. In some ways, these contraceptive methods sound completely absurd: who in the world would think douching with Coca-Cola prevents babies? But then you remember that when you were 12, you really did believe that Mountain Dew lowered a guy's sperm count. More »
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