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Contraceptive   /kˌɑntrəsˈɛptɪv/   Listen
adjective
contraceptive  adj.  Capable of preventing conception or impregnation; as, contraceptive devices and medications.
Synonyms: prophylactic.


noun
contraceptive  n.  A substance or device used to prevent conception.
Synonyms: preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, prophylactic.





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"Contraceptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... that many a woman undergoes an agony of symptoms which is only relieved when her monthly function appears. This fear makes the sexual relationship a risk almost outweighing its pleasure. The notoriously "unsafe" character of the contraceptive measures has only diminished this fear, not ...
— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson
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... It is no more unnatural to control conception by artificial means than to control childbirth by artificial means. Surely the whole question turns on whether these artificial means are for the good or harm of the individual and the community! Do all contraceptive measures damage the individual? The answer to that depends on the purpose for which they are used. If they are used to render unions childless or inadequately fruitful they are harmful. There are grounds for thinking that ...
— Love--Marriage--Birth Control - Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at - Birmingham, October, 1921 • Bertrand Dawson
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... situation, that many a woman undergoes an agony of symptoms which is only relieved when her monthly function appears. This fear makes the sexual relationship a risk almost outweighing its pleasure. The notoriously "unsafe" character of the contraceptive measures has only diminished this fear, not ...
— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson
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... prophylaxis applies to males. In the case of females the methods adopted would be also contraceptive, and the Committee do not recommend that facilities ...
— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health
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... that this new league is started to speed up the birth control movement. Its first aim is to take the question straight to Congress and repeal the Federal statute which prohibits the circulation of contraceptive knowledge. All the restrictive state laws are modeled on this Federal obscenity statute. If that is repealed, the state laws can easily be made ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto
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