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The History of Birth Control I was interested in finding out what they used for birth control in Colonial times. I found this topic to be very interesting since there’s usually no such mention of it in textbooks. Before I started looking for information I thought that the only thing I would find is that the only birth control they used was abstinences, but when I began searching I found that their culture was …

…all periods of American History: Susan Warren a single women made pregnant by a “prominent citizen”, he prepared her a “potion of Phisick”, It didn’t work so she brought charges against him. This was the evolution of birth control although most seem extreme and a block of any sensation, this was surprising to me because this proves that even in Colonial Times they had sex for pleasure just like our culture in the 21 centur