This week we're tackling the history of non-hormonal birth control from pre-history cave people times to the present.

Turns out, from the beginning of humans humaning, we've been trying to have sex without having babies. We're gonna give you the skinny on all the strange and not so strange things used by the ancient Greeks & Egyptians, 16th century European soldiers, and Americans after the vulcanization of rubber.

In addition to all the technological talk about animal intestines and mass-produced diaphragms, we'll also get into how politics, culture, and economics often have had even more to do with what methods of birth control people are using than the latest birth control discoveries. Case and point, America freaks out in the 19th century over all the birth control they think middle-class white ladies are using and makes it illegal!

Who doesnt love a good sex panic?

And don't worry, we'll also talk about out own awkward experiences with birth control, rag on abstinence-only sex education, and dissect that frequent nagging fear for hetero ladies that you might be pregnant. Comment and let us hear your thoughts!

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