spermicide

• “The most common recommendation by physicians for safe contraception is for condoms combined with a spermicide, which is categorically forbidden by poskim (Tendler).”

  Contraception.

• “As I said earlier, a condom or a spermicide is a paltry obstacle to the One who spoke the Heavens into existence.”

  The Anchoress

• “Furthermore, one of the main causes of yeast infections among women is condom and/or spermicide use.”

  ProWomanProLife » I knew contraception was good for something!

• “We were--at my insistence--using condoms, and just to be on the safe side, I would spray us both down before and after with industrial-grade spermicide.”

  The Huffington Post: Floyd Elliot: Vasectomy? Vasecta You!

• “As outlined by historian Linda Gordon in her book The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America, ancient-Greek women were told to sneeze, Egyptians tried to block the cervix with crocodile dung (the Japanese did the same with bamboo; African women with chopped grass), and Indians used rock salt dipped in olive oil as a spermicide.”

  Newsweek: Twitter Gets Way Personal

• “One lipstick, pink, Cover Girl; three condoms, foil wrapped, with spermicide; one cell phone, no SIM card, battery dead; a hundred ninety dollars in fives and tens; purse-sized Scope mouthwash, wintergreen; pack of Handi-wipes; key ring with two keys, neither of them to a car.”

  Fictionaut: Jumper

• “Other "barrier" birth-control methods include the Today Sponge, an updated version of the brand made famous on "Seinfield," that involves a spermicide-containing foam disc that covers the cervix and blocks sperm from entering; the FemCap, a reusable silicon cup filled with spermicide that covers the cervix, and the diaphragm, a much older rubber bowl filled with spermicide.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Birth-Control Riddle

• “The right for a woman to choose which color condom, which brand of spermicide, which type of birth control pills.”

  Obama gets NARAL endorsement

• “Whenever we had sex, we always used a condom plus an extra dose of spermicide.”

  Simon & Schuster: Every little thing in the world

• “The Chemistry Prize went to a trio of American researchers who discovered Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide -- and to a trio of Taiwanese researchers who discovered it is not, that even the most time-honored and trusted truisms of science are subject to modification when new data are obtained.”

  The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes

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